View from Retreat

 

6/4/26 Green Lake Park

After finishing a couple of errands on foot, I stopped for a Cortado break at Retreat. At the café’s sunny outdoor seating area, I picked this view facing a curve in the road around Green Lake – similar to a composition I had sketched several years ago from the same café.

In that 2022 post, I had been complaining about our Juneuary weather. Other than that one freakish day last week when the temps hit the high 80s, we haven’t had summer yet. I don’t mind cool morning clouds, though, when they eventually give way to blue skies. As long as it’s warm enough to sketch outdoors, I’m happy.

Blue notes: I may have to reconsider this Caran d’Ache Blue (260) for sky (see geeky mutterings in this post). This blue is too reserved for the exuberance I feel when the sky finally appears. I may have to bring back my favorite, much warmer Middle Cobalt Blue (660).