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| 6/22/13 Platinum Carbon, watercolor, 100 lb. paper |
Low tide was around 10:30 a.m., so Greg grabbed his camera
and I my sketchbook, and we headed out for Richmond Beach in Shoreline.
Only 15 minutes north of us, this saltwater park includes a gem of a beach in a
suburban neighborhood. Because you have to hike quite a ways down from the
parking lots and across a pedestrian bridge over industrial railroad tracks to
reach the beach, it feels remote and secluded. It’s not even visible from the
parking area.
Technically the water out there is not the ocean; it’s Puget
Sound, so you don’t see big waves breaking. Instead, you see gentle ripples
washing up as a small cruise ship glides across the horizon, and even a kayaker
paddles by. When the ship got closer, I tried another sketch of it. The dark
blue horizon is the Kitsap Peninsula (or maybe Bainbridge Island; they’re kind
of layered there, so I’m not sure).
As a Seattle native, I take all of this for granted most of
the time. But today I didn’t, and I remembered why I live here.
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| 6/22/13 Sailor pen, Private Reserve Black Magic Blue ink |
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