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A warm day in the Mission District, San Francisco
An unusually warm day for San Francisco – 75 degrees and not windy. My idea of a perfect day to sketch in the city. This is the view of the street corner (Mission and 25th) from the window at Mission … Continue reading
Posted in california, Silicon Valley
Tagged california, location drawings, mission, mission district, san francisco, sketch, Travel, urban sketchers
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Dappled light, Summer days
You know it’s summer when your yellow, gold and green paints run out before your Payne’s grey ( goodbye winter and spring!) Summer is lots of outdoor sketching, hikes and art shows. Sometimes I paint in the warm sunlight. And … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Silicon Valley
Tagged california, hike, location drawing, los gatos, people, saratoga, stanford, suhita, summer, urban sketchers
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Weekend at Capitola Beach
It was my daughter’s 7th birthday last week. I asked what she wanted, and she said she wanted to go to Africa. Since that wasn’t possible on short notice, we spent the weekend at Capitola Beach, an hour south of … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, california, capitola, family, kids, location drawings, santa cruz, Travel, urban sketchers
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Flowers at Filoli
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and haven’t heard of Filoli Gardens, google it now. Better still go right now, because the daffodils, the tulips, the magnolis, and many, many more flowers that I don’t know the … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Food, Silicon Valley
Tagged california, clocktower, filoli, filoli gardens, flowers, foo, location drawings, people, redwood city, urban sketchers, woodside
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A little SoCal trip
Sketches from a way-too-short trip to Southern California. Somewhere just north of Los Angeles, looking out onto I-5. You know you’re in Southern California when the light turns really yellow and tall palm trees break the horizon everywhere you look. … Continue reading
Zoo meets Library
We love the library. And we love the zoo. So it’s a VERY exciting day when Happy Hollow Park and Zoo brings their wild animals to the the Almaden Library for a show! Lori and Denise from Happy Hollow brought … Continue reading
These strange, strange places called Malls
The American Mall is one of the most bizarre man-made environments there is. It is also testimony to the fact that humans can get used to anything. Where else do you walk past headless, limbless casts of human bodies without … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home
Tagged apple, apple store, bizarre, california, location drawings, mall, mall culture, people, raiders store, sketch of a mall, suburbia, urban, urban sketchers
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Sketching at Kuumbwa
This is the second time I’ve been to Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz to listen to the White Album Ensemble. Growing up (in India, in the 70s) the White Album LP was much coveted because it was inexplicably banned. But I digress… This time … Continue reading
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Tagged Beatles, california, Kuumbwa jazz, location drawings, music, people, santa cruz, urban sketchers, White Album Ensemble
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Moveable Feast!
I suspect I am going to be at Moveable Feast a LOT on Fridays, now that they’re in Willow Glen on Friday evenings! What a lineup of foods from all over the world it was. And how lovely to see … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Food
Tagged food, location drawings, moveable feast, san jose, urban sketchers, willow glen
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San Jose Museum of Art
Every once in a while, San Jose Museum of Art has a free Family Day. We went to one yesterday. I like when it’s quiet and you don’t get jostled around as you look at exhibits, but it was fun … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home
Tagged chihuly, glass, joan brown, location drawings, museum, san jose, san jose museum of art, urban sketchers
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