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Aunt Mary
My cousin sent out an email to alert us that Aunt Mary may be approaching the end of her long life. I thought of her all day, as a result. I did this page of sketches from photos of her at various...
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First of March
March might be coming in as a lamb. There is light rain but it is warm. It might reach 60 degrees today. I did a sketch at the start of the morning. My cup of caffeine, my new Moleskine journal...
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Sketching An Tir
One of my several hobbies is the SCA,, a medieval and Rennaisance recreation group. There was a significant event yesterday for which I missed another important event (Seattle Comic Con) in order to...
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Could it be Spring?
There was beautiful blue sky and the temperature was 58 degrees (F) in the afternoon. After a few morning errands, I ate the lunch I’d packed at Petrovitsky Park and sketched my view from the car....
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Habemus Papam
I’ve been not feeling up to par since Monday, so I’ve spent a fair bit of time watching TV and thus following the Conclave. Today I was all better and went out to do errands. Arrived home in time for...
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St. Patrick’s
I’ve been gone to New Mexico a few days. I did not upload this before I left as I made two for the friends we were visiting there. Painted a St. Patrick’s Day card for friends. If you are not...
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Outbound flight
We’ve just returned from several days in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I’ll be uploading the sketches I did in separate posts here. We traveled outbound last Thursday, 14 March. This is the central...
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Las Cruces Day 1
on 15 March All four of us knew each other in Southern California. My husband and I moved to Seattle in 2000. One friend still lives there. She flew in to join in the visit to a 4th friend who moved...
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Homeward bound
Tuesday, 19 March 2013 We traveled home yesterday. We had a long enough layover at Phoenix that I could do a sketch. Similar to LAX, the aircraft taxi on a runway built over a road.
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Happy Easter
For those who celebrate it, Happy Easter. I did this as an Easter card for friends and waited to post it. I painted it from my own photo taken in York Minster (England)
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Easter bunny
For my first visit there yesterday (Friday), I spent 2 hours at the newly opened Hobby Lobby store. The arts selection is acceptable. Though they were on sale, there were no sketchbooks I wanted. I...
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Peggy’s wedding
Despite constant rain, it was a happy day. One of the people with whom I regularly sketch got married today! Thanks to WA changing the law, Peggy married Juanita, her partner of 23 years. Peggy...
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Do you have an Advance Directive?
[soapbox] Tomorrow, Tuesday 16 April, is National Healthcare Decisions Day (in the USA). I feel so strongly about this subject I was inspired to create a journal page: I’m retired now, but for 25...
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I may resemble this
It was fairly nice weather today. I was stuck inside getting some more Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) for my license. Woo-hoo. I’m half way to the total I’ll need by July 2014. It was on...
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Weekly theme is bridges
The Urban Sketchers weekly theme is bridges. I had several sketches I’ve already contributed. But I thought I would go out and find a local, ordinary one to add. I was sleepy after lunch but an...
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Sketches
Here are 3 sketches I’ve done over the past two days. First, I sketched looking out the 3rd floor window at my health clinic. It shows the view of part of Overlake Hospital across the street. I...
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Sketching the Puyallap
“Do the Puyallap”. That’s the slogan for the newly named “Washington State Fair” in Puyallap, WA. It used to be just the Puyallap Fair. Seattle and Tacoma Urban Sketchers met at the fair for an ad...
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Oak & new paper
New book, new paper, new technique. Painted a leaf and acorns I picked up. This is a new 10×7 inch Arches spiral bound 140 lb. watercolor paper book. I’d tried an arches sketch book before and...
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Digital Divide
My husband and I are probably among the digital elite. We have lots of options, including PC, laptop and tablets with high speed access to the internet. I’ve illustrated this with a sketch of our...
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Grandfather
This was done from an old family photo, as I did the one a few days ago of my grandmother. I added color from my imagination. My grandfather plowed the farm field with a team of hourses. I wonder if...
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