Two birds with one stone, visit to Seattle.

 I had two purposes of my visit to Seattle, one was to visit our relatives and two, attending the Sketcher Fest in Edmonds. For that I took only one sketchbook. An A6 HP watercolor paper. All images here are made with ink and watercolor.

We stayed at the house of our relatives, they have huge trees in their front yard, probably hundreds of years old. They been telling us for years that we should visit the North Cascades National Park, it is one of those parks not so much visited but it is worth the trip. We had such a good weather! I sketched the two main overlooks, no photograph or sketch makes it any justice, it’s something one should see in person to grasp the magnitude of it all, it’s breathtaking.

Passing the chain of mountains, we stayed at a relative’s yurt, how could you not sketch this, I had to record this experience.

I attended the Sketcher Fest in Edmonds on the weekend. Saturday I joined the first sketch walk group, they took us to the Olympic Beach where the Edmonds-Kingston Ferry dock is.

Some one took a video and I took a screen shot of truly yours sketching the scene above.

Image by @sandyallnock

Next day I had a good chat with Alvin Wong, who kindly offered to take a pic of us.

I said hello to Gabi, Stephanie Bower, James Richards, Virginia Hein, Rita Sabler, Eleanor Doughty and Nishant Jain, who made a demo sketch of my sister-in-law as a response to a question of mine, how sweet!

Finally I made I sketch of a corner in the neighborhood were I stayed. This tree was in the corner of a street cross, at the edge of stone wall but I didn’t see the roots. Where are they? How this huge thing lives like that?

My trip was joyful, I also enjoyed canoeing in the lake Washington, couldn’t take a photo, at risk of losing the phone and couldn’t sketch either, I was paddling!

The program