Sunday drive

Friday and Sunday sketching!  Today while driving around enjoying our beautiful but chilly views, I came upon a view of Hat Island and decided it was worthy of stopping for a bit.  I was driving on Witter Rd and don't know the name of the street but it's on the other side of the road to Comforts Winery if 

you want to try it.

Friday our group was at Blue School Arts in Clinton.  I meandered into the sunny room where Sara was working and made a sketch of a workspace and some weird thing that looks like a bunch of irons out the window.  It must be a Quonset hut??  Check out the head on the window sill!

Last week in Westport, I tried sketching boats from the car.  I decided it's not my forte!  Too many masts and hard to tell where they all come from and one of my boats looks like its falling into the water.  I like land!

June - August

It seems summer is flying by and with garden work, summer fun, like the Studio Tour, Super Garage sale and work at the Gallery, I haven't been posting very much.
I have not painted too many oils this summer, or should I say finished paintings..  The trip to Monterey/Carmel, painting with Carol Marine was very rewarding and I followed up plein air painting by monitering a class with T.J. Cunningham in our local area.
Personally, it has been a summer of eye stuff.  I had cataract surgery in June and then again in August.  Once, the first eye is unveiled you are amazed at how blue and cool everything looks; you keep winking from one eye to the other to see how yellow everything looks back to blue and clear.  I felt very worried about what I would be painting and if I would be reviewing the colors of my oils.  (yes!!)  I will post a couple of "finished" oils next time.

So, here is a brief recap of summer in sketches                  
Red Rooster Antique Mall and Kang's Lavender Farm, Freeland

  
Madrona Park in Anacortes and Rocket Taco in Freeland.
               
Sideview of Fossek's Farm and the WiFi cafe in Freeland



Visiting Westport WA.  Took an afternoon to sit in the sun and sketch the waterways and chilly beach.







Sunny Sunday sketching in Langley and Cloudstone park on Friday.


View from Lauri's house and Bob Bowling Rustics workplace.

Spring is finally here!

We have started sketching outside, mostly!  In the case of Sue's home it was a bit too windy and cold to actually be out there except briefly, but we enjoyed the view, bright colors and wonderful art on the wall.  We also enjoyed Phyllis's company one more time before she moves to Mexico with Robert.

Spring beckoned me to visit my daughter in Westport.  I drove down the 101 from Pt Townsend and enjoyed all the beautiful views.  The beach was wonderful this morning!

The Cameron Rd.  Fire Station in Freeland was one of the first days most of us sat outside.  Even our old member Mike showed up to sketch the station!

Old store in Bow WA.  It was cold outside, but we did it!

Fire Station - see Mike?

View from Natalie's living room of the valley off Shore Meadow Rd.

Washington's tallest lighthouse

I love imagining what these "girls" were giggling out from the last century.  If you look you can see a figure I forgot to paint up in the tree!

Holding Pond one block from the beach in Westport WA.

The slough, Bow Wa

View of the inside and outside at Sue's.