PAM

The challenge this time was to do cubism.  (The original suggestion, from a painter, was to not use lines at all, but only swaths of color.  But that won't work in the museum, since we can't use wet media.  So Mary changed it.)  I tried applying it to figures, in various ways, and never with much success.

Construction

The endless sewer maintenance work seems to have moved into the Pearl.

Balch Creek

I walked a laborious two blocks to meet a bunch of other sketchers at the Macleay Park Trailhead.





I found a vantage point to do the underside of the bridge, with a simplification of the trusses that hold it up.











And then walked up the trail to do the waterfall, where I got some relief from the all-encompassing green around me.



I stood on the footbridge that spans the creek.  Which bounces when people are walking on it.  Good thing I didn't need to draw any straight lines.

Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Convention

Just a few of the models in the public exhibit.

Wallace Park

Stopped by Chapman to watch the swifts, getting there before dark, in time to sketch a tree that had been limbed and girdled.  We lost another elm, damnit!