Christmas Eve

The prelude music at First Presbyterian's Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols.

Pioneer Courthouse Square

There'd been a plan to shift into Pioneer Place if it was raining, but there was enough shelter around the square that everyone found dry spots and stuck around.  Some did the tree and others the courthouse, and some, like me, did the weather machine.


I'd been expecting to see the dragon because it was so wet, but the heron was up again.


I joined some of the others for lunch and came back afterwards, when the dragon had replaced the heron.


Tuba Christmas

Except that I got there too late to get close enough to actually see any tubas.  So I listened from the edge of the square and did the heron atop the weather machine.

Book Club

Union Station

Another train ride, and another sketch from memory.  I studied a teddy bear in the Christmas display and then sketched it after boarding the train.

Lecture

A pre-concert lecture in Seattle.  Performing sea shanties to an audience of early-music patrons.

Christmas!

Part of the decorations set up at Union Station.  Already!

Done from memory, as an exercise.

Lan Su Garden

Made a quick trip to Lan Su in the afternoon.  Did the pavilion on the west side of the pond, with its reflection.

Lecture

Sculpture

In the basement of Lincoln Hall.
A quickie done while waiting for the doors to the recital hall to open.

Hawthorne Asylum food carts

This is one of the newer food cart pods.  It's in SE, a few blocks away from the the Hawthorne Insane Asylum was located.  Before it was turned into a food cart pod, it had been an empty lot, where some interesting industrial equipment accumulated.  Some of which was re-purposed for the pod.  And of which is just piled up in out of the way corners.

Tree trunk

...quickie done while waiting for a bus.

Japanese Garden

Inktober #31 - Ripe

Inktober #30 - Catch

Inktober #29 - Injured

Barbara Walker Bridge

From the top this time.

Inktober #28 - Ride

Inktober #27 - Coat

Portland Art Museum

Today's challenge was to do a sketch in the style of the day of the dead.

I started with the giant hair pick in the lobby

and then, later, did one inspired by a print in the basement.  That print had been faces, covered with stripes of muted hues.  I turned the faces into skulls, and striped them with bold primary colors.

Bridge Party

I got up early this morning to walk to Burnside, to join the people milling around waiting to parade up to the new bridge on the Wildwood Trail.  We were led by an honor guard of elders from a few nearby-ish tribes, followed by a marching band (who started with a song called, appropriately enough, 'Walking').

The parade ended with a party under the bridge, with pancakes and coffee.  And no actual access to the bridge itself.  The portions of the trail that used to come down to the roadway have been excised - blocked off, draped in burlap and covered with branches.  So I parked myself underneath the bridge and sketched it from below.

I'm not happy with the result.  But I'm not going to throw it away.  Cause I'll never get another chance sketching from the middle of Burnside.

Inktober #26 - Dark

Inktober #25 - Tasty

Inktober #24 - Dizzy

Inktober #23 - Ancient

Inktober #22 - Ghost

Inktober #21 - Treasure

Inktober #20 - Tread

Broadway Bridge

Deb had wrangled permission to use the parking garage near the train station.  I found a spot partway up the stairway and did a sketch from there.

By the time I'd finished that, it was dry - sunny even - and I thought I'd chance another one from the pedestrian bridge on other side of the train station.  But, of course, it started raining by the time I got there.  I looked for shelter nearby, and ended up under the bridge, looking up at it.

Inktober #19 - Sling

Song Circle

Inktober #18 - Misfit

Inktober #17 - Ornament

Inktober #16 - Wild

Inktober #15 - Legend

Inktober #14 - Overgrown

Inktober #13 - Ash

Inktober #12 - Dragon

Inktober #11 - Snow