Zoo Sketch April 2014

One day I will tire of spending the day drawing at the zoo.  But it is not this day. And probably not for many days. Or ever.  Whatever, have some sketches.

This lovely female Orangutan really enjoyed watching us draw her. In fact, when we got there, she was in the back corner of her exhibit until we showed her a sketchbook and she came right over to watch:

Art Museum Sketches

Here are various sketches I did from two different visits to the Portland Art Museum for free 4th Fridays in February and March. The last three are from the Venice exhibit. This sketch crawl was hosted by Drink & Draw in Portland. Check out the meetup page and join us sometime!

Animated Arts PDX gesture extravaganza

Animated Arts PDX proved once again to be a super unique drawing experience! (Event held 1/3/13) 

December Zoo Sketch outing

December 2013 zoo sketch outing with Drink & Draw in Portland

Samurai Drawings from the Art Museum, plus Matt

I had an amazing evening of drawing and then drinking with "Drink and Draw In Portland" for November's free Museum night! All my drawings were done in the Samurai exhibit, which was absolutely astounding. So very many sets of armor and paintings and sculptures to get inspired by! And after we got some beer and my  very mathy husband joined us, as can be seen in the last sketch. =)

"Animated Arts PDX" Drink & Draw gestures!

At the Animated Arts PDX drink & draw, I did my best to keep up with the crazy performances of a juggler, fan dancer, hoola-hooper, aikido demonstrator, and other dancers.  It was a special night for gesture drawing!

Trees and samurai, of course

Last night I went to the Art Museum with the Drink & Draw in Portland group and drew the samurai standing just outside the entrance to the samurai exhibit.  I will definitely be going again in November!

And today I went to Ladd's Addition in SE Portland and sketched some trees with the Portland Urban Sketchers! It was a bit cloudy, but the trees were vibrant.

Portland Art Museum sketch crawl

Last night I went to the Portland Art Museum with the official Drink & Draw Portland group.  Every fourth Friday night, the museum is free to get into from 5-8pm.  So we brought our sketchbooks, drew from about 6:30-8, and wandered over to a bar and shared sketchbooks and drinkies.  This was a unique and wonderful drawing experience!