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| 2/10/17 brush pen, ink, colored pencil |
US Bank Centre, a retail/business
office building in the middle of downtown Seattle, was a pleasant indoor space
for winter sketching this morning for the small Friday sketch group. Three floors
are open to the public with lots of art, seating, small tables and wide windows.
I picked a window on the second floor to sketch a couple
of the globe lamp posts on Fifth Avenue and a tree between them. Then when I
stopped to chat with Anne on the third floor, I looked down over the railing
and spotted Steve Reddy sketching a
small sculpture on the floor below. He’s a slow sketcher, so I thought I had
plenty of time, but I must have caught him just as he was finishing up because I
only had a minute or two to look over his shoulder, literally.
For the last few minutes before the sketchbook throwdown,
I pulled out a pencil to sketch the back side of the stone archway on the main
floor. (Apparently it came from the old Music Box Theatre.) Staying on the back side kept me from attempting all the ornate
details.
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| 2/10/17 ink, colored pencil |
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| 2/10/17 graphite |
After lunch, a few of us got a bonus treat: David Chamness works on US Bank Centre’s 24th floor and invited us upstairs. The huge lobby window faces west toward Elliott Bay. Kate and Vivian were happy to simply enjoy the view, but you know me – I couldn’t resist a quick attempt to capture as much as I could without a panoramic sketchbook. My thanks to David for letting me stay a few more minutes to finish up. (In April I’ll be taking David’s 10x10 Urban Sketchers workshop called “Freedom from Worry and Details” to learn how to do this right!)
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| 2/10/17 graphite, brush pen, colored pencils |
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