The Competent Eclectic Sketch Artist Hyphenate

COMPETENT: Adjective; Having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully.
ECLECTIC: Noun; A person who derives ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.
HYPHENATE: –noun 1. A person with multiple duties or abilities 2. A person working or excelling in more than one craft or occupation 3. A person who has or performs more than one job or function

Monday, July 14, 2014

At a Wedding (07-14-14)

I was invited to the wedding of a coworker, Erika G., and did these two quick watercolor sketches. It was informal, lovely, at a secluded pi...

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Dr. Sketchy Event (01-26-14)

I hadn't attended a Dr. Sketchy event for a while, so this was a nice opportunity to work on figure drawing . The model was Angelique D...

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Sketchnoting Workshop (10-26-13)

After the Sketchnoting workshop, we went to an interesting storytelling event about race at Hipbone Studio , ranging from discrete black-on...

Sketchnoting Workshop (10-26-13)

I attended an interesting-sounding event sponsored by TEDxConcordiaUPortland I found on Eventbrite : Sketchnoting . Of course, I got there ...

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Sign Painters and Large-Scale WeMake Event (10-12-13)

Busy afternoon and evening today, as part of Design Week PDX ! I watched an excellent documentary about sign painters at the Hollywood Th...

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Designing Women and a Fancy Auction (10-10-13)

All right, a Ladies' Happy Hour for Design Week PDX ! Driving all the way from Raleigh Hills during rush hour isn't for the fainth...

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

A Tepid Party to Start Design Week (10-07-13)

As part of Design Week PDX , ADX was the host site for the launch of the Design Museum , and a tepid affair it was. So tepid that I didn...

Sunday, October 6, 2013

A wedding (10-06-13)

My daughter Moso asked me to accompany her the wedding of one of her friends, Chrysta F. It was lovely in everything. The bride's dress,...

Saturday, October 5, 2013

A new group meeting: Illustrators (10-06-13)

I was very excited to find a new group on MeetUp : PDX Illustrators . The first monthly meeting, organized by Tora Stark took place at Papp...

Conference speaker (10-05-13)

I really enjoy working on caricatures and to draw out the odd elements in a plain face (in this case, the rigid pose, the small eyes and the...

Monday, September 30, 2013

A portrait (09-30-13)

Here is a portrait of a lady from my church, who has the most abundant, lush, curly hair. My drawing does not do justice to the the way it t...

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

WiPP Meeting (09-17-13)

This month, the Women in Portland Publishing (WiPP) met at Powell's Books for a special tour of the Rare Book Room . Since I am lat...

Monday, September 16, 2013

A not-so-good portrait (09-16-13)

This is what happens when I draw with my arm outstretched, rather than bring the sketchbook closer to me: the results are distorted and look...

Friday, September 13, 2013

What shoes to choose? (09-13-13)

Since the store group I belong to has had a 180 days' safety record, we get to choose a pair of Keen shoes. A difficult decision to make...

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Monthly Ladies' Meeting (09-12-13)

A few of the women at our local monthly gathering. I like these quick sketches because they show the personalities well.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

And now, for something different... (07-24-13)

Here is an image that I created, reworked in Photoshop CS4 . To not get too specific in details, this image was part of a large event board...

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Hawthorne Bridge and the Blues Festival (07-04-13)

We went to the Waterfront Blues Festival planning to end the 4th of Jul y with a concert by MarchFourth Marching Band followed by firew...

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Poetry Workshop with Paulann Petersen (04-27-13)

I had the exceptional opportunity to attend a poetry writing workshop with Paulann Petersen , as part of the Milwaukie Poetry Series , and f...

Friday, April 26, 2013

David Sedaris in Portland! (04-26-13)

After an (ahem!) embarrassing ordeal with a ticket purchase which I won't detail here, - and gracious treatment by the Arlene Schnitzer...

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Stained Glass Window (04-21-13)

Valérie came up to Portland to sing in a fundraiser concert for the Oregon State Choir at First Presbyterian Church downtown. We sat upsta...

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Bacchanal at the Art Museum (12-06-12)

As part of its Body Beautiful exhibit , the Portland Art Museum put up a show that was definitely very Portlandia -style: a vaguely Greek-e...

Friday, November 30, 2012

Technique Demonstration at Dick Blick (11-30-12)

I went to Dick Blick to see Corrine Loomis Dietz demonstrate an acrylics effects technique.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Concert at the Schnitz (11-19-12)

A great concert by the Oregon Symphony at the Arlene Schnitzer Hall . I asked pianist Martin Helmchen to sign my sketchbook (signature c...

Saturday, November 17, 2012

IPRC Event (11-17-12)

For a while now, I had been wanting to see the new space where Independent Publishers Resource Center (IPRC) had moved to and I took the op...

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Open House at SE Antique Store (11-15-12)

One of my favorite local antique stores is Bernadette Breu Experience . It is one of those magical dreamy places where odd and delightful ...

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