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| 10/14/21 St. James Cathedral |
Completed in 1907, St. James Cathedral is one of my favorite
old buildings in Seattle. I admire its twin towers from Interstate 5 whenever I’m
downtown. An appointment brought me to First Hill last week, so I used the opportunity
to sketch one of its bell towers from Ninth Avenue. At 8:59 a.m., a half-hour
after I began this sketch, the bells started chiming. By that point, I was dang
cold on that gray, drizzly morning, so the bells cheered me up until I finished
a short time later.
Despite the Roman Catholic cathedral’s architectural complexity, which continues to challenge me, I have attempted it many times over the years. My favorite sketch might still be my very first brave attempt in 2013 (shown below) when I had been sketching for only a little more than a year. Sometimes I think I had more courage then than I do now!
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| 1/24/13 |
You would never know that you had only been sketching for a year when you did the bottom sketch. That's quite an architectural challenge. I like the softness of the new one.
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