One Week 100 People, Year 10, Part 2

 

3/12/26 Green Lake Starbucks

What would have been Day 3 turned out to be too busy to sketch people, but I kept apace on Day 4. I began in the morning at Starbucks, where I caught a crew of Seattle Public Utility workers, five men of all colors, taking a long break with lively discussions. I wish I could have composed them all on the same page, but sometimes some were blocked, then others, and I was afraid they’d all get up and leave at any moment.

Although I caught a few on my walk, most of the rest came from my parked car at a Northgate strip mall. It wasn’t as busy as the grocery store where I had sketched earlier, so I had to be more patient; it must be like waiting in a duck blind! Bonus points: three dogs!

3/12/26 Green Lake and Northgate 

Northgate Plaza strip mall parking lot

We all woke on Friday the 13th, the final day of One Week 100 People, to the season’s unseasonable first snowfall! Whaaat??! As I’m skittish about driving if I see even one flake falling, I gratefully accepted Kim’s offer of a ride to Bellevue Square retail mall. It’s become an annual tradition for USk Seattle to work on 100 People there. Despite the joint outing with Eastside Sketchers, the snow must have kept many away, as we had a small turnout.

3/13/26 Bellevue Square

The mall is always a fruitful location for drawing people – so many small stories everywhere. It’s also just a fun place to people-watch. So different from Seattle, the women really dress to the nines in Bellevue. I especially enjoyed the formidable challenge of sketching people walking up and down stairs, which was easy to see through the transparent walls of the stairwells.

I apparently can't count while I draw!

I thought I was done, but as I waited for others to show up for the throwdown, I couldn't resist
drawing this dog (only one of two I saw at the mall that day)!

I was planning to sketch all 100 people in the large lavender Uglybook, but I didn’t estimate well and ran out of pages on Day 4. I had just enough left in the orange book, though, to finish off One Week 100 People. With that, I could put both the large lavender and the large orange Uglybooks into my bookcase of completed sketchbooks (I’ve officially decided that this is the year of completing partially filled sketchbooks).

Small but hardy turnout!