Encyclopedia of urban figures

On a recent sketching trip to Pt. Townsend, I took quite a few photos with my camera. The ones I took with my cell phone are so much easier to access because I don't have to take out an SD card and transfer them to my laptop.

So I finally got to review the ones on the camera. What do you know! I have captured the "encyclopedia of urban figures"! Just about every example of people walking in town is in this one shot: distant figures, near figures, mid-range, singles, couples, sitting, all ages, variety of overlapping and separation, with jackets, vests, shirts, dark top/light bottom, dark bottom/light top, light to dark local values, with and without hair, variety of stride and foot positions, etc.

Pt. Townsend with ASk

Top: Jude, Carolyn, Anne-Sophie, Missy
on the Ferry
Bottom: Missy, Jude, Carolyn
 sketching downtown

Perfect day at Pt. Townsend with the Anacortes Sketchers today. We had a truly melded group, joined by poets, a visitor from France, Lisbeth Cort of Whidbey Sketchers, and Kate Buike of Seattle Sketchers.

Michele Cooper's sketches
Missy, Lisbeth & Carolyn on the deck at Sirens

Thank you, Missy and Jude for carpooling. Special thanks to Missy for setting it all up.

(Wait until you see her sketch of Anne-Sophie's raspberry soda!)

Fun with "new" materials

Using my new Stillman & Birn Beta Sketchbook

I got a lovely new sketchbook (180# paper! no less) as a gift of the workshop.

Going through my studio hoard, I dug up my Van Gogh pocket palette. Never been used! They worked out quite well for our day at Pt. Townsend.