Carlos

 More recent life drawing.

Jenna

 Back to life drawing last week.

Aurora

It's been a long while since I've done any live figure drawing. I'm in Durham for a short visit; I found a drawing session last night.

The Arthur Foss

 

The Arthur Foss, docked in Seattle, WA, is the oldest wooden-hulled, 19th century tugboat still afloat. She is 120 feet long with a 24-foot beam and draws 15 feet. She was built in 1889 in Portland, OR, and operated in the Puget Sound towing log rafts and then during the Alaska Gold Rush. In 1933, she was used in the film Tugboat Annie, starring Maureen O-Sullivan, and then in 1940's Tugboat Annie Sails Again, featuring Ronald Reagan.

In 1941, The Arthur Foss began towing barges from Pearl Harbor to Wake Island. She escaped the Japanese invasion by mere hours. After the war, she was returned to civilian service in Washington, and in 1970 she was donated to the Northwest Seaport Museum in Seattle. She was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.

Historical Sources:

Harbordays.com blog - Tug of the Month: Arthur Foss

Tugboatinformation.com

Pike Place Market

 

Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington.

Space Needle, Seattle

 

The Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. This was actually the view from our hotel window!

San Francisco

I was in San Francisco for a few days in August, and did these two drawings. I could draw that city's architecture forever. 

Both in Nob Hill. The second building is the work of James Francis Dunn, a self-taught architect who designed numerous residential buildings in San Francisco in the "French Renaissance," Beaux-Arts style in the early part of the 20th century.