Tag Archives: california

A warm day in the Mission District, San Francisco

Posted on June 3, 2012 by

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 →

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Dappled light, Summer days

Posted on May 27, 2012 by

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 →

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Los Alamitos Elementary School Art Show, 2012

Posted on May 12, 2012 by

A big day at Los Alamitos Elementary School in Almaden, San Jose. Art by all the kids, music performances by students and alumni, and tables of fun craft activities for the kids. While I manned a little table with my … Continue reading →

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Weekend at Capitola Beach

Posted on April 19, 2012 by

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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Flowers at Filoli

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

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 →

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A little SoCal trip

Posted on February 25, 2012 by

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 →

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Zoo meets Library

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

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 →

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These strange, strange places called Malls

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

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 →

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Sketching at Kuumbwa

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

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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Warm winter days

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

It’s been an unusually warm winter, and we just had a couple of super-warm days, so I had no excuse to NOT sketch. Day 1: Stanford Campus. Hoover Tower and Stanford Memorial Church. Everyone looks so intent and sincere as … Continue reading →

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