Sunday Sketches

Work has been SO busy, it's been a while since I've done much sketching.  I am sorry I am so behind in posts!!!

I was so happy to join the Seattle USk group to sketch again this past Sunday.  With near freezing temps, a motivated group of Seattle Sketchers showed up at the Pioneer Square underground bus tunnel!  This is part of what is so great about USk, the group motivation and support to venture out, even in the COLD, to see our world one sketch at a time.

First was the bus tunnel...it was very hard to get the curves right, took longer than expected. The colors were also very gray, I still need to work on cranking up color for the sake of a sketch instead of being so literal. I started this sketch with the back half circle, had to erase and redraw a little smaller and higher on the page in order to get it all to fit.

Second, with frozen hands, I needed to feel some sun, so it was up to the sunny corner at 3rd Ave. and Yesler.  Here I started with the tall rectangular shape of the street space, starting with the vertical line in red brick on the left, down along the street, and up again on the right hand corner of the off-white building.

After, I headed over to Zeitgeist cafe and sketched the entire interior.  I have been trying a limited color palette over pencil drawings in my work sketches lately, and I suppose this is a variation on that idea, with just ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, yellow ochre, and a touch of manganese blue in the glass. I was tired, so the perspective got a little wonky in places! I also probably need to draw into the gutter a bit more, maybe try pen...
always learning...