Monterey sketchbook

Finally got my sketchbook from Monterey scanned and posted to Issuu.

TRON with Carols

"Christmas Ships" = a zillion ships on Lake Union broadcasting Christmas Carols.  It looks a little like TRON on water, but with a choir instead of Daft Punk.

Not the easiest thing to photograph (small objects drifting gently in the dark) but you get the gist.

(Not quite) solstice sunset

I missed the true solstice sunset - I was in a meeting until 5pm and it was dark already, and I have the feeling that it was more a case of "getting darker" than an actual sunset.  Today I was working at home, though, and got to see both the moon set and the sunset.

Kitchen jam

Not that kind of jam - the musical type.  One of the Daves pulled out his guitar and the guys were passing it around in the kitchen so I ran out and grabbed a notebook to sketch.  This has been on my desk for a few weeks and I'm just now getting around to scanning it.

Sunrise and breakfast

I'm still working on my sketchbook from Monterey, but in the meantime here's the sunrise from Friday and breakfast on Saturday.  There' wasn't a scrap of food in the house, so I went out to Louisa's and it was pretty good.  There used to be an awesome breakfast place in the U District, but they turned into Thai place about a year ago.

Friday morning sunrise

Pink and purple this morning

Monterey

It's going to be a while before I get my sketchbook scanned, so in the meanwhile here's some pictures from the trip.  Getting there was 9/10 of the fun - MRY was socked in fog, and those small planes like to be able to see the runway.  But now I can say that I've been to San Jose (but that's another story).  Here's the good part of the trip:

Christmas tree

Got the tree today - and the lights and ornaments are on!  We get the tree from the Boy Scouts who are always set up across from Ballard Market - they are very good at tying knots!  After I got mine home and up I looked out the window to see someone who had Saran-Wrapped theirs to the roof - wild.

Drawing Jam!

Today was the Drawing Jam at Gage and I spent a few hours over there.  I started off with print making, which I have never done before.  I think I could really get into it.  Here's my very first attempts:

My robot's head needs to be shoveled out some more, but I really like my pear.

Then it was over to the Judy Garland Christmas show:

And some figure.

And then good ole' Sylvia O'Stayformore, Drag Queen Extraordinaire:

I had taken the landscape that I'm working on over and thanks to Mitch for taking the time to give me some feedback, and it was great to see Deborah, Cathy, D. Lisa, Julie, and Laura again (and I hope Barbara made it over there).