SKETCHING IN PT TOWNSEND AT THE PALACE HOTEL

It was a wild and wooly, blustery and windy day today in Port Townsend, but three intrepid Sketchers braved the elements, sort of, and made the very best of the bad weather for a Sketchbook Skool Alums get together. We had to hide out in Better Living Through Coffee, The Owl Sprit and, finally, (for an hours of actual sketching) at the Palace hotel to escape and stay dry, but we had a great time. Linda Tennant and Elsbeth McLeod and I discussed, in depth, such topics at black gessoing paper over modeling paste, using gouache instead of watercolors, employing paint crayons, jelly transferring, stamping journal pages, Roz Stendahl, Tommy Kane, buying more supplies and tools (YES), men, whether kombucha is nasty (also yes, for me),  and other sundry and assorted topics. And a fine time was had by all. 
Later, the boat made it back through the storm, I watched windsurferes on the tidal pool in Ebey's Preserve behind the ferry dock, and then even stayed up late enough to touch up my sketch.

Finished Sketch

Rolltop desk and orchid, upstairs lounge area of the Palace Hotel

Sketched for one hour at the Palace Hotel - this is what I had at the end of that time.