Pats House and Gardens - then and now

in August of 2015, the sketchers met to draw member Pat's new house, with its promise of gardens to come. She invited us to image what her plantings might look like. Now here it is, three years later, just before the fourth of July holiday, and her garden area has gone from sparse but full of potential, to bursting with colorful fulfillment. 

HATS at PAT'S - The Miner's Hat

The days we dress up to sketch each other are just the BEST. We gathered at Sketcher Pat's house, and brought with us many and varied hats, which we sketched and wore. This is a vintage Coal Miner's hat with a brass, coal oil lamp, with its own flint and steel striker. FANTASTIC!!!

Sketching in Pat's Garden

Whidbey Island Sketchers member Pat Brookes invited us to her garden in Langley to sketch and socialize. It was a lovely day, with the sun peeking through the clouds. This, of course, gave me my now standard Sketcher's Sunburn. I didn't mind, as it was
warm and lovely, there were dozens of singing birds and flowers were blooming everywhere. I didn't want to paint green Green GREEN again, so I went in search of a view that would give me COLOR. I found just the spot, where I could see several different colors of green and yellow, a deep wine and brilliant vermillion Japanese maple, a planter pot with geraniums, some little bright blue blooms and a touch of yellow, and some distant purple iris. Lots of color! And a nifty little birdhouse tucked into the edge of the forest.