Sketch Crawl

Saturday morning, I got up, grabbed some coffee, and was headed to Seattle Center. I was going on a sketch-crawl! It was a meet-up of sorts with the local Urban Sketchers group. Now, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Were we going to crawl or lie on the ground to sketch? Would we all sketch the same thing?

   It turns out neither of those things happened. I met them in the Seattle Center food court, got acquainted and saw some of their amazing, inspiring work, and headed out to sketch, with a plan of getting back together after an hour.

   First, I will tell you a bit about the Urban Sketchers organization. They are a group that meets about once a month to sketch. They feel strongly that there is an educational, storytelling aspect to location drawing. Their aim is to tell a story of their surroundings and to record the time and place. Urban Sketchers have a network of blogs, and a Flickr group to share their work with others.

   I choose for my sketch to do the newly installed “sonic bloom”. Sonic Bloom is a motion-activated set of giant flowers that create noise when there is motion nearby. The set of five flowers are solar-powered, and they bask colored light over the Seattle center at night. While I was there in the daylight, it was still a fun and unusual thing to sketch.