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2/26/16 inks, colored pencils |
Today was Wintergrass,
one of my favorite Urban Sketchers indoor sketching events! We’ve sketched the
annual bluegrass music festival at the Bellevue Hyatt three years in a row (see
2015 and 2014), and it gets more fun each year. It’s hard to beat all that
toe-tapping music as an accompaniment to sketching. I also see a parallel between
bluegrass jammin’ and urban sketchin’ – people with a common passion getting
together to do their thing. My only regret today was that I couldn’t stay
longer.
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2/26/16 ink |
Having just finished Suhita
Shirodkar’s Craftsy course, Figure Sketching Made Simple, I warmed with a few pages of gesture sketches trying
to capture the “lines of action.” Then I roamed around the Hyatt enjoying the
music and impromptu dancing, stopping now and then to sketch groups of jammers.
With 10 minutes left to kill before the sketchbook sharing,
I stood on the stairwell overlooking the main lobby, where bright red lanterns
hang in a small bamboo grove.
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2/26/16 inks, colored pencils |
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2/26/16 Zebra brush pen, colored pencil |
Great sketches of the musicians!! Your people are getting better and better. I really like the first one of the group standing. How did you like Suhita's course? I still haven't finished the one I started with Stephanie Bower before Christmas. Life has been too busy. :)
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Tina
I like how you have capture the event.
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