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| 10/16/15 inks, watercolor, colored pencils |
Tucked against the southern shore of Lake Washington is the Stone House Café, which is as literal
an interpretation of its name as any café can be. Even the restroom
incorporates the original stonework of a former service station built in the ‘20s.
With indoor and outdoor seating decked out for Halloween, a full-service
restaurant and a bakery, the Friday Urban Sketchers had plenty of choices this
morning. First choice for most of us was coffee and some form of decadence from
the bakery (I chose a pumpkin scone, but I drooled as cinnamon rolls, sticky
buns and Danish passed by).
Suitably fortified, I warmed up with a sketch of the
hacked-up tree across the street (below) – an ideal subject for #inktober and
my Pilot Parallel pen. Despite the hack job, this tree seems to express a
certain insouciance that I tried to capture.
By then the morning had warmed up along with my hand, so I
settled in for the Big Kahuna: the Stone House Café building itself. Sue and I both liked the shadows on the
north side of the building that highlighted the stone contours and the building’s
high peaks (although looking into the sun for an hour wasn’t much fun).
Our thanks to the café staff for making us feel at home! For
both indoor and outdoor sketching, the Stone House is a keeper.
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| 10/16/15 inks |
I'm surprised that Seattle doesn't have a problem of trees falling over because of the complete disregard for personal physics. Trees grow the way they do, in part, to maintain balance. Obviously your power company doesn't much care about their feelings :-)
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