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Up front at the Bellevue Jazz and Blues Festival
[Guest post by Charlene Collins Freeman in Bellevue, Washington] I spent an evening with my husband and another couple at the Bellevue Jazz & Blues Festival, a dinner concert at the Resonance in Bellevue. The Full Circle Jazz Ensemble was performing. We sat at a table right in the front row with maybe 8 feet between me and the musicians. The evening of jazz, sketching, and cocktails was a slice of heaven. I turned my back to my table and sketched throughout the performance. I was able to pick my way from musician to musician through the course of the evening.Having more than an hour to sketch them all, as they sat and played so close to me and my sketchbook, was a great experience. There were a few solos and I quickly captured this performance of “What a beautiful morning.”
I sketch directly in pen, preferring the thin platinum desk pen that has waterproof ink in cartridges and then painting on location with my metal palette full of tube paints. Sketching directly in ink allows me to keep a freshness and spontaneity that are more appealing to me, despite the inevitable mistake lines that can occur in quick sketching. Those mistakes are a small price to pay for the experience of capturing my experience on the fly.
During a brief intermission, I sketched the instruments at rest. The act of sketching at events and throughout my life adds a layer of joy that is hard to explain. It embeds the experiences I capture in my memory in a way that photographs simply cannot do.
Great music, company, and sketching. Bliss.
Charlene Collins Freeman is a teaching artist based in Bothell, Washington, north of Seattle, USA. She takes groups of sketchers to Europe every year for sketching workshops and owns Cloud 9 Art School in Bothell. Her work can be seen at http://ift.tt/2jUTJph.
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