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The waterfront is a busy place these days. Construction of
the seawall had halted during the busy summer tourist season, but now that the
dreary weather is back, so are the big, noisy machines and lots of action. Anne
had suggested that the waterfront (if weather permitted) and the ferry terminal
building (if it did not) would make the area a good sketch outing for the
Friday Urban Sketchers, and indeed it did.
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David Hingtgen
has some particularly terrific sketches of the seawall construction activity
that I was hoping to take a crack at myself from the pedestrian overpass, but this
morning’s drizzle was discouraging. Instead, I sheltered under the ferry
terminal building’s awning to sketch the overpass itself (with the Alaskan Way
viaduct behind it).
Chilled, I ducked into Caffe Apassionnato inside the
ferry terminal building. The café’s window-facing table gave me a warm, dry
view of CenturyLink Field, Safeco Field and a bright red seawall construction
crane. If you look to the far left, you’ll see two yellow cranes from some
other project (plus a tall black thing that looked like some kind of pump).
After the group shared its sketches, Kate and I stopped for lunch at Ivar’s fish and chips bar. Due to
all the construction, the sculpture of “Ivar Feeding the Gulls” (which I sketched a couple years ago) is
temporarily sequestered from the sidewalk with a chain-link fence. Kate was
disappointed that she couldn’t sketch Ivar from the front, but we had a full
view of the sculpture from the back as we ate lunch.
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Of course we both saved some fries for the gulls!
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