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| 11/24/18 Under the First Avenue South ramp |
Seattle’s best brick-and-mortar art supply store is Daniel Smith. Fortunately for my
budget, the store is not convenient to me, so I don’t go there as often as I’d
like. The email I received for the store’s Black Friday weekend sale, however,
was more than I could resist – 20 percent off everything in the store!
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| A fresh stash of staples. |
After stocking up on Stillman & Birn sketchbooks and a couple of Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Markers, I returned to my car, which was parked beneath the
First Avenue South freeway ramp adjacent to the store. The triangle of light
formed by the ramp, its support beams and the industrial buildings under it
caught my eye.
About five minutes into the sketch, I regretted that I didn’t have
my gray-toned S & B Nova sketchbook
with me! It would have saved me quite a bit of time applying all that graphite
to the white page. But isn’t that always the Catch-22 for every urban sketcher?
Whichever book you want is the one that’s still at home.
Love the sketch and the white areas!!! That is a great sale. I wouldn't have missed the sale either.
ReplyDeleteThanks -- I'm happy with the way I was able to catch the light in that dark and somewhat unpleasant parking area.
DeleteYou made the parking lot much more pleasant in the sketch!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you remember that parking lot. . . kind of scary!
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