King Station, Seattle

I did a sketch before departure from King Station, Seattle to Union Station, Portland on Wednesday, 28 July 2010. Here is the quick sketch of the beautiful station. I added the colours during the train journey.

meeting Bill Gates by chance

Bill Gates was sitting next to our dinner table in a restaurant called Six Seven at Edgewater Hotel in Seattle. We were there watching the sunset while having our dinner before flying home tomorrow. He autographed one of my sketches done during the train journey from Portland to Seattle. It was our lucky day. See the bottom of the sketch!

This post was sent from Hotel Max, Seattle.

the day we met for the very first time

On Tuesday, 27 July 2010, for the very first time, I met up with other USK Correspondents for dinner at Steelhead Diner, Pine Street, Seattle. It was the very first time that we were able to relate the personalities to all those sketches we were all too familiar with on Urbansketchers website. Lapin started sketching Gerard and soon after, it became a portrait sketching session at the dinner table. We were later requested by the restaurant to move to another table so they could form a bigger table for a large group of diners. For that, we were rewarded with three free delicious deserts while we continued to sketch each other over beer and coffee. When were were done with the indoor sketches, we went to the viewing deck to sketch the views of the waterfront. Here are the photos and two sketches I did that evening.

Bell Street Pier, Seattle

Last Sunday sketching with USK-Seattle group here in Seattle was exciting. We met at the iconic Bell Street Pier 66 and the view at this overhead pedestrian bridge was breathtaking. The view was nice but it was hot standing on the bridge to sketch so I chose a shady spot next to the Anthony's restaurant and did this piece.

The place was crowded with the holiday makers waiting to board the cruise ship 'Norwegian Pearl' docked at Pier 66 heading to Alaska on a bright Sunday morning. It is gone by now so the view is quite rare for Seattle sketchers more so for me, a Singaporean sketcher.

If I have another week in Seattle with no other plan, I probably would buy a ticket and board the cruise liner to Alaska for a 7-day long holiday!

airport in transit

As some of you already known, I will be attending the first International Urban Sketching Symposium at Portland from 29 to 31 July 2010. I am now at a hotel in Seattle sending this sketch I did at Narita Airport, Tokyo in transit from Singapore to Seattle.

For me, it was hard to sleep on the plane and I don't remember having any good sleep ever on any flight. So for almost 20 hours, I was awake most of the time! It is 10.20am here in Seattle now and my body clock has yet to adjust to local time. I am trying to rest well to prepare for this weekend as it should be fun exploring Seattle with a Sunday skechcrawl together with the local Seattle sketchers. Till then.