Sketchbook Sunday

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Mostly lunch sketching.



From a music event at the Triple Door. Great venue, but very dark...

Sketchbook Saturday

Lunch sketching on the left hand page, then a little road sketch while waiting for the tow truck to get my dead Jeep.


Sketching on the bus home from dropping off my busted car.
The lady sleeping was great-- she'd shift from one position to the next, and then right back again.
Drawing on the bus is catch as catch can-- very shaky.


Seattle light rail sketching. Much smoother than the bus.


Mostly lunch sketching, although if you look at the top right vignette, you'll note that the chairs are different. That scene is from a Caffé Vita on Capitol Hill here in Seattle.

Sketchbook Sunday

Continuing sketchbook stuff...

A statue of a 2nd century Aphrodite, and some sketches on Seattle's fabulous new light rail.
The empty rectangles are my predrawn spaces for doing painting thumbnail sketches.


Lunch sketches


At Entai Beach Park in Bellevue, during an uncharacteristically hot day.


More lunch sketching at work...

Sketchbook Saturday

I thought that as a change of pace, I'd devote weekend posts to sketching and drawing...
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I use a moleskine sketchbook that I have wrapped in a pencil carrier. The two fit like they were made for each other:



The moleskines aren't the greatest sketchbooks in the world (don't get me wrong, they're good or I wouldn't use them), but there's something about them; the heft, the solidity, style, that feels like it 'fits'. So that's what I use.


Drawing during an Ol' Time Social live music session at the Conor Byrne, here in Seattle.


The sleeping beauty is my girl, Mary Jo. In the lower left of the page you can see a thumbnail sketch for one of the Montana road trip paintings, Lookout Pass.


I have a tendency to start in the middle of the page and work out to the edges. Sometimes that leaves a lot of awkward space. The gas pump on the right page was a personal challenge to see how much I could get drawn while filling up at the station.


Left page is from the cafeteria at work, while the right is a medley while waiting for a haircut.