The Portland Opera strikes again!

I've been lucky enough to participate in the Portland Opera's Drink and Draw Comics Nights, wherein a group of us ink slingers get to sit in on a dress rehearsal and draw our little hearts out to the actors onstage, trading drawings for entertainment (and little plastic jugs of wine!). It's been a wonderful experience and I've appreciated the exposure to an entire art form that I'd previously never explored. Right now the current production is of two plays - L'Heure Espagnole, a lighthearted, double-entendre-ridden romp in a clockmaker's shop, and L'Enfant et les Sortileges, a somewhat darker cautionary tale about what happens to naughty children when left alone at night. Portland Opera's productions are very modern and witty, and if you've never been to the opera, these are a great place to start. Here's my illustration from L'Heure Espagnole - the clockmaker's wife, surrounded by two potential paramours who fall a bit... short... of her expectations.