Patterns from plain people

Der Dutchman 1: modified hex sign?

Der Dutchman 2: quilted wall hanging

Primary colors

View from Charley’s

Three cars lined up outside Charley's Philly Steaks. (You don't get the chance to use three unadulterated primaries, in a sketch from life, every day.)

Pit stop

Fill 'er up?

I'm old enough to remember gas station attendants who came out to the car, asked how much gas you wanted, put it in the tank, and took payment. They often cleaned the windshield, as the tank filled. Those threads of local connection have been severed.

Great Lent

Forest Grove Cemetery

We await resurrection and reunion.

Railroad Crossing

Right side of the tracks

Coal cars

Every so often, we wait for a train to pass through the grain elevator hamlet of Kileville, and I do a quick sketch. It's fun to imagine what's in the railway cars, where they came from, and where they are going.

I grew up on sad train songs like Wreck of the Old 97 and Hobo Bill's Last Ride. Railway transportation doesn't seem to have changed much since then. Watching the freight cars roll by takes me on a little trip back in time.

Breathing space

Philodendron, dentist's office

A few weeks ago, I had a dentist's appointment. The philodendron in the waiting room was more interesting than the television.

Church of Jesus Christ, LDS (from back parking lot)

A few days later, we had another appointment, near a green space bordered by two church parking lots. We arrived early, so waited briefly in one of them.

I painted the first sketch after I returned home.  I was still in colored pencil mode, from January’s pattern practice, so went over the watercolor with colored pencil, on both of these, at home.

Savory

Jason's Deli