Becky Hawkins
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Postcards and sketches
🕑 Added 2022-03-29 17:38:16 +0000 UTCHi patrons!
I'm organizing a costume sale for the theater, now that we've reorganized and culled a bit. So if you're in Portland, keep May 7-8 open! I'll let you know when we have details. We're also getting ready to sell tickets for two theater-teen shows and a professional show in the next couple months, so my brain is bouncing from March to June and back, with several stops in between.
In the meantime, spring break camp:
Front desk sketches:
...and workplace coiffure:
I had an hour of time in between errands and work the other day. I'd heard that a beloved downtown diner called The Roxy was closing, so I checked it out. I've been more of a Daytime Gay™ in Portland, so I was unaware of this all-night diner/haven for LGBTQ Portlanders of all ages and kinds. It sounds like the type of place you'd write into a story because you wish it existed. Here's a short-and-sweet article where some regulars talk about what The Roxy meant to them.
Here are my thoughts while I waited for a breakfast sandwich:
It was the morning after St. Patrick's Day, so the street was still pretty sleepy.
The waiter had a squeegee for the picnic tables, and the sun kept peeking out, so I stayed there to finish the drawing...
...and added ink wash at home.
...and I totally bought a shot glass.
This summer I swear I'm gonna make time to draw outdoors more often. I had to rely on some outdated Google street view for the front of this next postcard:
That was an accidentally bleak note to end on. (I guess the closing of The Roxy is bleak, too.) I hope you enjoyed the postcards and sketches, though! Thanks, as always, for supporting me on Patreon.
-Becky
Comments
Emily Siskin
Glad you got to visit before it closed. YES re more outside drawing time this summer!
