Heritage Park

 

Our group at the throwdown

Rain may have threatened, but our group managed to have a sketchout downtown at Heritage Park. Among the collection of preserved homes in the park is the Jack Yates home from Freedman's Town in the  Fourth Ward, an appropriate subject for a February sketchout. Several sketchers chose that house for sketching, but there was so much there to draw!

First let's appreciate Monica's sketch of the small wooded glade in the middle of the park. You can see that in the header. She drew a second view, which you can see below.

Monica

Let's look at some of those sketches of the Yates house.

Jeff Whit

Jeff Whit did a great watercolor of the house.

Susan

Susan chose a three quarter view.

Another favorite subject was St. John's church.

Lisa

Lisa picked a back view with the winter trees.

Decha

Decha drew the church from the side with all the winter trees and the skyscrapers behind. A nice contrast.

Carlos

Carlos also chose the side view with all the tall buildings just behind.

Judith

Judith moved way back and got a much broader view of the trees, the winter park and all the buildings.

Chris

I kept, mostly, to black and white with a splash of color on the roof of the little pavilion that sits in the middle of the park.

There were other houses in the park to draw. Each one of them has a place in Houston history.

Joel

Joel did a study of the Pilott house in brown ink.

Heather

Heather and Sherry chose to sketch in pencil.

Sherry

Candy drew the Staiti house and surroundings in ink.

Candy

Janice decided to draw the very large sphere in one corner of the park.

Janice

Candy's husband Jeff did a collage of the church and the various buildings behind it.

Jeff

Susan finished her first sketch and went across the street to draw Oldenburg's Geometric Mouse.

Susan

We had a group throwdown and then went off to lunch.

If you're reading this blog for the first time and urban sketching interests you, why not join us on our next sketchout? We'll be meeting at the new Ismaili Center in March. You can find out more about our group and the dates and times of our sketchouts on Instagram. You can see more sketches and meet more of our group on Facebook.

Swap, Admire and Share at Texas Art Supply

 This time I'm diverting from the norm. No sketch credits, no group photo, no throwdown. We met at Texas Art Supply to admire everyone's sketchbooks, to look at interesting art supplies and to sketch each other.  The sketch in the header is one example.

Judith

Judith took care of some group business first and gave a general run down of our indoor sketchout.

People wandered around and paged through everyone's sketchbook and admired the work from past sketchouts.

They also admired and tried out the sampling of supplies that people had brought to share with the group.

Some people settled down right away to begin sketching while the rest of the group paged through sketchbooks.

And the header and this sketch were some of the results.

But the view out the window works too.

Some decided to try out Joel's plasticine stamp idea.

So there was no throwdown and no group pic, but there was lunch. It's always nice to try something a little different in the months when it's harder to be outdoors. Many thanks to Texas Art Supply for lending us the meeting space....oh and shopping..did I mention shopping?

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