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

Inktober #10 - Pattern

Inktober #9 - Swing

Inktober #8 - Frail

Inktober #7 - Enchanted

Lecture

...on telling fake news from real news.

Inktober #6 - Husky

Lan Su

Inktober #5 - Build

Inktober #4 - Freeze

Meeting

PLUG

Inktober #3 - Bait

Inktober #2 - Mindless

Inktober #1 - Ring