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Weekly Theme: Bicycles
Mid-April. The weekly theme for the international Urban Sketchers’ flickr pool is bicycles. I’d see an interesting looking bike shop in an old building in Georgetown. So I returned yesterday to...
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August Sketchcrawl
This was the monthly sketch crawl for the Seattle Urban Sketchers. We met up at a small coffee shop in the funky, old, historic neighborhood of Georgetown, just south of Seattle. There are so many...
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Sketch Day out in two locations
I was out sketching most of the day because the weather was perfect. Even late in the afternoon, it was only mid-70′s. My first subject was the Renton Third Street Theater, now home to the Civic...
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Georgetown Brewing
Georgetown Brewing grew and moved a couple years ago to larger building on Denver in the funky neighborhood of Georgetown. Today was a beautiful, sunny day. I parked across the street and drew...
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Book signing and Lunch
Went in to the city for a noon book signing by Nicola Griffith at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop . She’s written Hild, about the abbess of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire. Had a bit of a chance to talk...
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Old Georgetown
The Carleton Ave Grocery Store is one of the oldest in Seattle and one of only a few neighborhood corner stores left. Georgetown is the oldest neighborhood in Seattle. I’ve been by several times and...
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Oldest House?
I went back to Georgetown (Seattle neighborhood) today to do a photo survey of possible sketching locations for an upcoming sketch outing. According to the map I found, this is the Hoffeditz Maertens...
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Sketching in Georgetown
That would be Georgetown, a neighborhood of Seattle, WA! We really lucked out on the weather for Seattle Urban Sketchers outing to Georgetown. We met at All City Coffee, just off Airport Way. I’d...
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While at a seminar
I attended a seminar today at South Seattle Community College. It fulfilled a new requirement for my license **. I noticed the building would fit the Urban Sketchers weekly theme of...
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Sugar Plant
This morning I did a sketch “in a crack” (It’s a phrase from a Irish sketcher I follow who sketches in spare moments, while waiting, etc). I was 10 minutes too early for an errand in Georgetown. I’ve...
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Chocolate!
What’s better than chocolate on a dark, drizzly Seattle day? The Ad Hoc Friday group spent the morning at the Fran’s Chocolate shop in Georgetown. It is a beautiful location which has modernized an...
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Georgetown, my favorite sketching neighborhood
After a visit to Daniel Smith Seattle, I stopped in Georgetown for a sketch. There are still so many spots I want to sketch in this old, funky, neighborhood. It was another beautiful sunny day of 55...
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Odd Signs
There is a newly built McDonald’s in my area. It doesn’t have the large Golden Arches sign. I don’t remember that I’ve ever seen one without (well, except in Europe). This one has a huge and...
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A varied day
The morning was devoted to a visit to a local museum’s archive. Fort volunteers and staff had an opportunity to view a few items from the collection of 1850’s garments. And shoes….. Though we couldn’t...
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Four down, 21 to go
After today’s sketch outing I continued on to Georgetown, one of the oldest neighborhoods of Seattle. In the cool of Fran’s chocolates, I sketched this latest astronaut of the “Astronauts on the Town”...
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Georgetown Garden Walk
Though I’ve known about the Garden Walk for a few years, I’ve never been. Now I think I’ll go every year I can, regardless of whether Urban Sketchers holds a sketch outing. I don’t live far from...
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Greetings from Georgetown
Another nice day so I spent the afternoon sketching outside. I went in search of a new mural in Georgetown, an old neighborhood south of Seattle. I couldn’t find it driving so I got out of my car....
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Trailer Park Mall
After meeting Daniel Smith, four of us from Urban Sketchers Tacoma had a brief sketch outing in Georgetown. This is a very funk, artsy neighborhood, south of Seattle. I’ve heard it described as the...
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Art All Day
Today was a day of making art three different ways: painting from a photo; doing an “urban sketch” on location; sketching and painting from a live model. It was another fun morning with Jodi Steele at...
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I’m now “official”
The Friday group of Seattle Urban Sketchers had a delicious sketch outing to Fran’s Chocolates in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. Fran’s is located in an old brick industrial building that is...
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