NaSkeDraMo--catching up

I've kept up the Sketch A Day project, and posted one for each day in the Washington DC SketchCrawl group, but haven't kept up posting them for the Plum Gallery.  The SketchCrawl group is a "closed" group, so the postings aren't public.  Now I know.

Day 4 was the 4th of July.  The guy above is waiting for the Capitol Hill neighborhood parade to begin. There were a lot more people, but the view from my very comfortable chair in front of Starbuck's became blocked....so I had to just call the one guy  and the lamppost he stood by "it."

The sketch for Day 5 was a white lily in a bouquet I had bought for Louisa a couple of days earlier.  It's watercolor on one of the Strathmore watercolor cards.

On July 6, it was a sketch of Capitol Hill Day School, near a park where Sophia and I sketched from a very comfortable bench.

I was inspired by a bottle of basalmic vinegar for the July 7 sketch....and then added a bottle of olive oil from Italy, too.  Cooking note:  Good basalmic vinegar comes from Modena, Italy.  This one is proudly from Modena.

Day 8 already, and this is a line sketch of my new sketch kit.  I love it...it stretches around my sketchbook...and actually I can slip in one for Sophia, too.  We are all set to "Do Art!" sharing pencils and erasers (we have a very popular pink one and a white one).

In the SketchCrawl DC Facebook group, there is a diversity of artists, which is great.  Some are sketching totally from their imagination, some are working from photos or memories, and some are working from life.  So far, I am happy to report that all of my sketches have been from life....and I definitely have a bias toward that process.  Thanks to my Portland Plein Air and Studio Painters group for showing me that path.