"Food Trucks along the John Dam Plaza"

On my way home from sketching the Uptown area, I spotted all these people enjoying the food trucks in John Dam Plaza.  So, even though needing to make a "rest" stop soon, I pulled into the parking lot here, grabbed my sketching stuff and went to work.  Quick, quick, quick - even adding the color before leaving.  40 mins in, time to go.

Watercolor Moleskine sketchbook, Lexington Gray ink, watercolors 

"The Uptown"

Out sketching with the Urban Sketchers: Tri Cities at the Uptown in Richland, WA., this morning. Some of us started out by having a spudnut, or two, and coffee in the renowned Spudnut Shop just around the corner from this spot. Then with great weather in town, we had a lot of fun sketching together.

6x9 Super Aquabee Sketchbook, Noodler's ink, and watercolors.  

"Along the Riverwalk in Richland, WA"

With some time to kill this morning (an hour) I drove over to Roaster's Coffee in Richland, then parked in the nearest realtor's office parking lot and sketched these two structures.  The sit along the Riverwalk and the one in the foreground houses, among other businesses, Rosy's Diner.  It is situated just inside the two windows on the far left.  This is one of those occasions when the importance of taking your sketchkit with you at all times becames apparent, as it often does with me.