Summer in April at Gas Works Park

4/27/15 various inks, watercolor, Caran d'Ache Museum water-soluble colored pencils, Canson XL 140 lb. paper

The last time I sketched at Gas Works Park, it was last August (August! The one month of the year in these parts when you think you can count on sun) with the Friday sketchers, and it poured most of the morning. Today it felt like a different world.

For one, Kite Hill is closed for soil work, so only the area around the Gas Works was accessible, and I couldn’t climb up the hill for the wider view that I was hoping to sketch. But with the sunshine, blue sky and 75 degrees, I’m not complaining about a thing.