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| 5/28/14 Platinum Carbon, Diamine Midnight and Diamine Grey inks, Zig markers, Pitt Artist Pen, Uniball opaque pen, water-soluble colored pencil, Canson XL 140 lb. paper |
Seattle has a reasonably large sketching community; on warm
summer days, we’ve had as many as 50 or 60 participants at Urban Sketchers
gatherings. And yet whenever I’m out and about sketching in neighborhoods or
parks, I never seem to spot other sketchers.
My plan today in the Roosevelt neighborhood was to make another
progressive sketch of the Sound Transit Light Rail Station construction project, but when I got there, I realized it
didn’t look much different from last time. As I was driving through the
intersection of 65th and Roosevelt, however, I glimpsed the familiar
urban sketcher’s stance: a figure seated on a low stool, sketchbook on lap,
gazing into the distance. It was Steve Reddy, sketching the building across the street!
I decided to skip the light rail project until more changes
had taken place and instead sketch Steve sketching. But I did manage to get one
of the construction project’s cranes in the background.
How great that you ran across another urban sketcher that you knew. You did a great job on getting in the details of him sketching, the crane, the street signs, the trees and the background buildings.
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