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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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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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More Moveable Feast!
If you follow this blog, you know I LOVE the food trucks at Moveable Feast. So when they added 2 new locations, both within 10 minutes of home, I was thrilled. I’m going to have to visit regularly, not just … Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Food, Silicon Valley
Tagged food, food trucks, location drawings, moveable feast, people, urban sketchers
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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
Posted in california
Tagged Beatles, california, Kuumbwa jazz, location drawings, music, people, santa cruz, urban sketchers, White Album Ensemble
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Everyday sketches, January 2012
The trouble with coming back from an exciting trip is getting back to sketching the everyday. And to make it harder, everything literally pales in comparison to the madness and color of Mexico City. I feel like the color has gone … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, people, Portrait
Tagged almaden, cafe, california, home, location drawings, people, suburbia, urban sketchers, winter
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People on the streets, Mexico City
Harmonipan Players in freshly pressed khakhi uniforms stand at street corners and crank the handle on the harmonipan all day long. It must be even harder to listen to the same 20 second tune, over and over. I have to … Continue reading
Posted in Mexico City, Travel
Tagged cops, food, food vendor, harmonipan, location drawings, mexico, mexico city, people, snack cart, Travel, urban sketchers, urban sketches
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The Piano Lesson
This is my daughter Kavya at her piano lesson with her infinitely patient teacher, Ms. Rosa. There is something really cute about little feet that dangle high above the pedals. It will be many more years before Kavya’s feet get … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, people, Portrait
Tagged almaden, california, family, kids, location drawings, people, piano, piano lesson, suburbia, warm light
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Portrait of the Artist: Jun Pei Cui
Every weekend, Jun Pei Cui sets up a little table with a very powerful table lamp outside the Museum Store at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Jun Pei Cui is a Master Seal Maker, and author of the … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, people, Portrait
Tagged artisan, artist, Asian Art Museum, california, Jun Pei Cui, location drawings, museum, people, portrait, san francisco, urban sketchers
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