Seasonal Sketch at Swanson's

There are so many Urban Sketchers in Seattle!  Two days ago, a small sub-group of Friday sketchers met at a local plant nursery to sketch...while there were decorations, Santa and kids, a model train village, flowers, even reindeer and a camel, I was of course drawn to the buildings!  

This is a view inside one of the greenhouses, a one-point, eye level perspective.

I also want to start showing more of my sketching process...I think because I am responding to so many questions on my Craftsy class--probably my favorite part of the teaching process online, and all the sketching process I've developed for the book. I should start showing more process information here... that will be my New Year's resolution!!

To that end, I threw my sketch on the ground and snapped this photo to show how I start complicated scenes with only a few basic shapes in perspective...it really makes the process so much easier to learn to edit and simplify...and quickly block in those basic foundation lines on my page.

You can see my eye level and vanishing point were directly in front of me, at my eye level as I sat on my travel stool. The head of the person in the background is above my eye level line!

I hope to also post my sketches from Bangkok...so stay tuned.  And thank you for checking out this blog!