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| 8/29/25 Gasworks Brewing on Lake Union |
I don’t know if it was the weather (overcast and cooler),
the location (Northlake), or that it was the Friday before Labor Day weekend,
but USk Seattle had record-breaking attendance at our drink & draw!
The venue, Gasworks Brewing, is one that I had
checked out several months ago for drink & draw potential. Although it is a
fabulous location right on the north shore of Lake Union, it has one serious
flaw: Very few of the plentiful tables have umbrellas. What were they thinking?
Given some of the scorchers we’ve had this year, I had dismissed it as an
option for most of summer, but the end of August cooled down enough to make me
optimistic. It must have helped to keep my fingers crossed, because the day
ended up mostly overcast and cooler – just fine for sketching the lake and each
other without shade.
It was especially fun to meet Naoko, a sketcher from
USk Tokyo, who has been traveling with her husband across the US the past
couple of months and will continue on to further adventures before returning to
Japan. I was thrilled when I found out Seattle was on their itinerary! It’s
always special to finally meet someone I’ve followed for years on social media.
In addition, several sketchers who had not attended USk in
quite a while (more than a decade for two of them) joined us at this drink
& draw. It was a happy reunion for those of us who knew them back then. We
also greeted several newcomers who made the drink & draw their first
outing.
All in all, it was an ideal way to start the holiday weekend
before saying good-bye to an excellent summer.
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| Naoko wears both a USk Japan T-shirt and a UW cap (her husband Nobie is a former Husky!) |
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| We don't usually do a formal throwdown or group photo at drink & draws, but this one felt like a special occasion! |
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| Good to see Jackie after nearly a decade! |
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| Welcome back to Will, whom we also hadn't seen in at least a decade. |
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| Naoko was on a mission to sketch every drink & draw participant! |
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| Alice (foreground) is another sketcher we hadn't seen in years. |
It is great when sketchers from the past show up and sketchers you are meeting in person from other countries join the group...especially if you know them from the internet. Meeting people you knew just from online was a fun thing about the symposiums too.
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