Life-sized fun

I visited the Seattle Museum of History and Industry, christianed MOHAI locally,

Gabriel Campriano's sketch of the museum

and bought membership too, because I know I'll want to revisit and take visitors to the exhibit of the Seattle Sketcher, Gabe Campriano. Gabe, who also started the Urban Sketchers group and edited The Art of Urban Sketching which I blogged previously about, has become Seattle area's Pretty Official visual documenter of all things Puget Sound....

The exhibit is bright, colorful, airy, with walls and walls and nooks and crannies filled with pages from his sketchbook...

including several "life-sized" enlarged versions.

This wall greets the visitor.

 I'm imagining this is a favorite, a view of the Sleepless in Seattle houseboat. 

And sketchbooks from other urban sketchers are also on display. 

It is an awesome display of sketching talent and will be at the museum to mid-May. (Alas and alack, Fraser's chair is now gone, along with the other Seattle in Media goodies. Can't have everything.) 

Read more about it in the Seattle Times article below.
http://seattletimes.com/html/thearts/2022631135_seattlesketcherreviewxml.html

I have been a busy (artful) beaver

...to mix my metaphors.  Some journal pages I played with this past week, when the year stretched out before me and it felt like I had extra time on my hands. Not a feeling I get a lot.

I am enjoying building pages upon news of the day. There's an Everly Brothers article and 50th anti-smoking article here. I love the Reagan ad, when he was a mere actor hawking Chesterfield cigs. (In the decorative Christmas carton for discriminating smokers.)  This is the spread with the half-page included. I like to make pockets to hold full articles for later enjoyment.

 

A Done Deal

Two-page journal entry for today. Started with the DONE DEAL Boeing headline, being with mixed feelings about the news:   good news for keeping Boeing in Seattle, not so good news for the future of pensions. Anyway, built up with ephemera from card and gift from a lifelong pal...there's a 1967 picture in there as proof.  Used paper I painted in Mary Ann Moss's SEWN online class and reminded myself to make some more this week. It was such fun and the papers are a blast to use.

Ooo.. just noticed. Must go back and etend those whiskers, poor fellow.

I also enrolled in Making Maps Skillshare workshop. There are some creative and inspirational personal maps other students have submitted. I love maps, so  I know I'll enjoy the map project..still thinking about what to do.  Right now, you can save $10 on your first class (my class was only $20). Go check them out. I saw some good classes listed - calligraphy, hand lettering, poster design, among others.

And, finally, I recently spent an hour at our library so I could view all the videos on Teesha and Tracy Moore's Artstronauts site. Vimeo videos just don't work well on my laptops, either one, but they flowed along like the Mississippi at the public lbrary. Talk about inspiration. Are you an Artstronaut yet?

Everyday Matters 24: Draw a piece of fruit.

So I drew a banana.