UW, Seattle

On my way back to King Street Station I stopped to sketch the old observatory on the UW campus.

My host had suggested going through the quad, to check out the cherry blossoms.  They were only just starting to bud out, leaving only the gnarly trees showing.

Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle

Just like yesterday, I caught a train and a bus to Georgetown, this time to meet a huge group of sketchers at the old steamplant, backed up against Boeing Field.









There was an immense amount of machinery inside the plant.  To keep from getting overwhelmed, I perched myself beside one of the giant flywheels and used it to frame the scene, seeing, mostly, the next flywheel over, and a shifting group of people playing with toy steam engines.  Like my brothers and I had when we were kids.











Then I looked to my right and did a... whatever this thingy is.













Unkinked myself and found the stairs to the second floor.  And a corridor between the fireboxes.  One woman had sat down in the only beam of sun in the place and was intent on sketching.

Finally, I went outside into the chilly sun and did one last sketch of Rainier, with the tailfin of a 767 in front of it.



Dress rehearsal

The Medieval Women's Choir.

Cartoon puppy-dog eyes

Fran's Chocolates, in Seattle

Took a bus to Georgetown and found Fran's Chocolates, in a building that I remember used to be a fish-packing place.  (Someone else remembers it as ice and storage.  And the old lettering chiselled into the building's face says that it once was a brewery.) 



I was late to the party and the room was already filled with sketchers.  I did part of a spiral stairway.  Decorative, but useless, ending at a blank ceiling.












Then I returned my chair to the large table, where a bunch of disabled kids were getting a talk on different sorts of chocolate and wandered over to the other corner, where I did part of the display from the back.



Then a couple of other sketchers, engrossed in their work, and the finial of another, functional stairway.

Cat

Tried another sketch of a cat.  This one is Smokey, a 15-year old Birman.  He can be yours, for only $15.  (Veggies, of course, has already been adopted out.)

I have to figure out how to draw Siamese-ish cats in ink.  Using a lot of ink for his mask makes him look grotesque.  But simply drawing an outline looks even worse.

(PS. Smokey was gone off the site by the next day.  Maybe practicing on animals at OHS is good karma for them.)

Kitten

OHS has a kitten on their adoption page!  A three-month old one, called Veggies.  The last little caboose from last year's crop.  She won't last long, I think.