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sketchbook meditations skip to main skip to sidebar sketchbook meditations tuesday january 8 2013 i ll be showing some paintings and sketches in feb i interrupt the retirement of this blog to say that i ll be showing some paintings and sketchbooks next month i hope to see some blog followers there posted by bill sharp at 1 08 2013 10 10 00 am 4 comments tuesday july 10 2012 last post i ve decided to discontinue posting to this blog i will continue to post to my original blog bill sharp paintings this blog was an experiment in separating my sketches from my oil paintings but i find that i post to one and ignore the other for long periods and it hasn t really worked to try to keep both up to date with current work i don t have any plans to remove the content of this blog but i hope that if you ve enjoyed what i ve posted here you ll continue to visit my wordpress blog thanks so much for your encouragement and supportive comments posted by bill sharp at 7 10 2012 07 41 00 pm 1 comment saturday may 26 2012 sw oak and 4th 7 x 10 gouache in sketchbook posted by bill sharp at 5 26 2012 07 40 00 pm no comments monday march 19 2012 temporary kitchen for the past month my studio has been our kitchen this table is where we eat posted by bill sharp at 3 19 2012 08 10 00 pm 2 comments thursday january 26 2012 bouquet of flowers study for a painting i m working on posted by bill sharp at 1 26 2012 04 16 00 pm 1 comment saturday january 14 2012 bad weekend thoracentesis is an invasive procedure to remove fluid or air from the pleural space for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes a cannula or hollow needle is carefully introduced into the thorax generally after administration of local anesthesia one can end up in the emergency room from side effects like a collapsed lung an x ray and cat scan indicated the lung was not collapsed and there was no mass in the abdomen a new treatment will hopefully arrest the fluid accumulation she feels better now i apologize if an earlier version of this post alarmed people the initial crisis is behind us and we re trying to evaluate what is next just like life posted by bill sharp at 1 14 2012 04 42 00 pm 4 comments wednesday december 7 2011 allen s radiator shop i ve neglected this blog lately as i ve focused on painting and work i haven t made time to do much sketching this shop is on my way downtown and i always think to myself that i want to get down there and paint it as i go by posted by bill sharp at 12 07 2011 09 43 00 pm 4 comments sunday august 21 2011 orcas island rosario harbor at twilight i recently spent a week painting on orcas island part of the san juan islands off the coast of washington state most of my time was spent oil painting but i had time for a few sketches here and there view near the village of eastsound small farm from obstruction pass rd this was the view from the balcony of my room overlooking rosario harbor this small island is just off shore from the village park in eastsound you can walk out to it at low tide i ll post more on my oil painting blog soon posted by bill sharp at 8 21 2011 07 22 00 am 4 comments labels watercolor and ink orcas island wednesday august 3 2011 beautiful evening in the garden our garden is usually full of weeds and in need pruning it still is but not as bad as usual and with the help of one of my sketching friends who designed plantings for a neglected bed it s been a very pleasant place to spend these warm evenings 8 x 10 two page spread in sketchbook the weather has been so gloomy until recently that i m really soaking up the sun now that it s here i can hardly stop staring at the blue sky it is a challenge for me to make graphic sense out of all this foliage i need a few man made objects to focus on posted by bill sharp at 8 03 2011 08 23 00 pm 3 comments labels garden home watercolor and ink sunday july 24 2011 hayfield i took a drive away from town today and found a spot to pull the truck off the road at this hayfield that had recently been cut i had my oil painting gear with me but was too lazy to set it all up i ve not done any plein air oil painting this summer posted by bill sharp at 7 24 2011 04 39 00 pm 1 comment labels watercolor and ink nw oregon rural landscapt saturday july 23 2011 july 23 sketchcrawl in north portland i joined a group of portland urban sketches to take advantage of a rare sunny day and revisit the neighborhood near the white eagle saloon this neighborhood is sort of being gentrified but it s adjacent to freeway overpasses and rail yards that make it noisy and a brewery which makes it smelly it was fun to see everyone and enjoy a day drawing in the sun posted by bill sharp at 7 23 2011 07 56 00 pm 2 comments labels north portland urban sketch watercolor and ink saturday july 2 2011 artichoke cafe last night my wife and i enjoyed some really great local acoustic music at the artichoke cafe four singer songwriters shared the stage and all were really terrific the proportions are a little wonky on this one but i enjoyed drawing it and listening to the tunes posted by bill sharp at 7 02 2011 12 28 00 pm 2 comments labels portland sketch wednesday june 15 2011 sketching at smith rock state park 7 x 10 watercolor and ink on a trip to central oregon i spent a day at smith rock state park which is very popular with rock climbers these formations are fun to draw and there were several groups of climbers scaling them as i worked along the trail i came across this incredible view of mt jefferson framed through the cliffs of smith rock the boulder between the two cliffs is probably about three of four stories high 7 x 10 watercolor and ink posted by bill sharp at 6 15 2011 04 27 00 pm 2 comments labels central oregon smith rock state park plein air watercolor and ink tuesday may 10 2011 may flowers posted by bill sharp at 5 10 2011 01 02 00 pm no comments labels home watercolor and ink oregon coast monday may 9 2011 dog sketches miki over recent months i ve ended up with a collection of sketches of our new dog miki miki is a really interesting looking little guy that we think may be part chihuahua and shibu inu he s not as small as a chihuahua but he has those buggy eyes his ears are really large so that sometimes he looks like an arctic fox he s a rescue dog and was listed as an american eskimo mix we looked up inuit words and decided to call him miki which according to the internet means small ice flow when he s awake he doesn t stay still for very long so i have to have several sketches going at the same time hoping that he ll return to a pose i ve already started to sketch it s easier to draw him while he s sleeping but of course he usually settles into the same sleeping pose so i end up with a lot of very similar compositions posted by bill sharp at 5 09 2011 08 13 00 am 3 comments labels dog home ink miki watercolor sunday march 27 2011 levitating in the studio again posted by bill sharp at 3 27 2011 02 15 00 pm 12 comments labels watercolor and ink saturday march 26 2011 self at 58 it s that time of year again every year near my birthday i try to do a self portrait based on one i did when i was in my early 20s the original drawing was done as an assignment to learn how the face ages we were to do a self portrait from the mirror and then using information on how faces change over time produce a second self portrait predicting how we would look at age 60 the two drawings i did for the assignment are reproduced badly below posted by bill sharp at 3 26 2011 09 06 00 am 5 comments labels portrait monday march 21 2011 se portland the back side of the german deli and edelweiss cafe posted by bill sharp at 3 21 2011 12 16 00 pm no comments labels watercolor and ink se portland saturday march 5 2011 ringler s annex i met members of the portland urban sketcher s group on west burnside today for a morning of sketching this is the mcmenamin s ringler s annex pub it s actually more a dull yellow than green but it was a dull day for the most part but at least it didn t rain we met at ringler s for lunch and compared drawings and tools and talked about the upcoming urban sketcher s symposium in lisbon posted by bill sharp at 3 05 2011 03 42 00 pm 3 comments labels watercolor and ink west burnside monday february 21 2011 north oregon coast i ve spent a few days recovering from a cold at a friend s house in cannon beach these two sketches are the scene from the widow in stormy weather the scene changes so fast that it s difficult to capture looking up from the page before making my next mark the light would have changes completely 7 x 10 ink wash the sketch above was when i was feeling pretty bad i think it reflects how i was feeling 11 x 14 watercolor this one is from a bit later in my stay and i m feeling more sunny i m not used to working this large and had trouble controlling these more extensive washes thanks john and jane for sharing this wonderful retreat posted by bill sharp at 2 21 2011 08 20 00 am 2 comments labels watercolor and ink oregon coast sunday february 20 2011 mongolian boot ink wash 10 x 7 posted by bill sharp at 2 20 2011 10 27 00 am no comments labels sketch monday january 17 2011 drinking and drawing laurelthirst public house the laurelthirst pub on nw glisan in portland is a place i like to go and draw while listening to some great local bands the music starts at 6pm so i can go on a work night and not be too wrecked for work the next day i like the kung pao chickens they re a kind of gypsy jazz band that used to play early on mondays but they moved them to the late show so too late for me now i also like lewi longmire s country rock band he reminds me a bit of the jayhawks i get there early and draw before it gets too packed to see anything i started this drawing at about 5pm and by the time the bands started around 6 15 the place was filled they also serve vegetarian food posted by bill sharp at 1 17 2011 07 38 00 pm 5 comments labels portland watercolor and ink sunday january 9 2011 sketchcrawl in old town cold soggy day for sketching sketchbook pages were damp and difficult to draw on hard to keep clean color most of the right hand page was done on location most of the left was done at home you can see that the color is less muddy on the left hand page posted by bill sharp at 1 09 2011 03 49 00 pm 3 comments labels old town portland urban sketch watercolor and ink tuesday january 4 2011 crack press nw 3rd and glisan nw 3rd and glisan right at the steel bridge on ramp this is on the edge of old town and therefore has the red lamp posts that are used there i m not sure if this building is still inhabited but at one time it was the home of crack press posted by bill sharp at 1 04 2011 07 30 00 pm 3 comments labels portland urban sketch watercolor and ink saturday january 1 2011 break in the weather it s been very wet even for portland so when i got up on friday morning and could see my shadow i grabbed my sketch bag and headed out it was in the mid 20 degrees fahrenheit so i stayed in the truck but i thoroughly enjoyed getting some drawing done these were both done in the se industrial area a few blocks from the willamette river the sketch above was done at the corner of se 3rd and ash this one was done at se salmon near 1st ave i m looking toward the river showing the skyline of the sw downtown including the koin tower and wells fargo center with the west hills in the background it was so nice to see and feel the sun posted by bill sharp at 1 01 2011 04 23 00 pm 3 comments labels plein air portland watercolor and ink friday october 22 2010 rr utility sheds 7 x 10 watercolor and ink this is at nw 9th ave near the intersection of nw naito pkwy which i still think of by it s old name front ave centennial mills and the fremont bridge are visible in the background posted by bill sharp at 10 22 2010 07 41 00 am 4 comments labels pearl district portland urban sketch watercolor and ink sunday october 10 2010 two views from a garage rooftop 5 x 8 pages this spread on facing pages of a moleskine watercolor sketchbook is of the views looking in opposite directions from the rooftop level of a parking garage on nw station way in the pearl district of portland the sketch on the left is looking west through the pearl toward the west hills and the other sketch is looking east toward the wilamette river and includes the broadway bridge undergoing construction upgrades and the historic albers mill building which is now being leased as office space although i ve sketched and painted several times at this location these both started as absent minded doodles during meetings from snapshot on my laptop posted by bill sharp at 10 10 2010 11 47 00 am 3 comments labels pearl district portland urban sketch watercolor and ink friday october 1 2010 missing house this is a site on north knott street between interstate and mississippi i was drawn to it because it appears to be the site of a home that is no longer there there are 2 overgrown cedars beside a concrete stairway that leads up from the street but no house at the top the fremont bridge looms behind it and the property is littered with dumpsters now i wonder who built and lived in that missing house posted by bill sharp at 10 01 2010 07 53 00 pm 7 comments labels north portland portland sketch urban sketch watercolor and ink thursday september 30 2010 apple posted by bill sharp at 9 30 2010 06 55 00 pm 2 comments labels home sketch watercolor and ink saturday september 25 2010 wrong way union station from the corner of nw hoyt and broadway at the foot of the ramp onto the broadway bridge posted by bill sharp at 9 25 2010 04 35 00 pm no comments labels portland urban sketch watercolor and ink older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe to posts atom posts visit my other blog bill sharp paintings drawing blogs i enjoy ira robbins sketch for the day tiastudio urban sketchers portland rene fijten sketches petescully in viaggio col taccuino janasjournal com 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