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Category Archives: Animals
Looking back on my week
What’s your week been like? Continue reading
A week in sketches
Random sketches from the week. Continue reading
Posted in Animals, california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose, Summer, Vintage Signs
Tagged cat, donut, doughnut, jacaranda, location drawing, pink box, rollow doughnut, sofa market, swim, tree, urban sketchers, usk, wing's
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One hundred people: a roundup
My biggest takeout from this week of people sketching is that to keep drawing people, they have to be more than just figures and anatomy to you: you have to be interested in people. And you have to enjoy the inevitable interaction that the process involves. Otherwise, people will remain “stuff you add to a scene to give it scale”. Continue reading
Daily Sketching and Inspiration
With sketching everyday, I’m not looking so much for inspiration on what to sketch. Just anything that is in my daily life that catches my eye will do-it’s only a little sketch after all. But last week was especially challenging … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Drink, Everyday Sketches, Figure Drawing
Tagged architecture, drink, family, how-to, kids, location drawings, watercolor sketch
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Quick-and-Dirty (aka Everyday Sketches)
Thoughts on trying to draw everyday. Little quick-and-dirty sketches. Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Figure Drawing, Food, people, Uncategorized
Tagged cat, figure, food, head study, location drawings, people, tomato, urban sketch, urban sketchers
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Zoo Sketches
It was a surprisingly warm day at San Francisco Zoo: I didn’t even need to keep my gloves on to sketch. It’s a large zoo, and we walked around quite a bit, so I mostly sketched on the go, in a small … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, california, Close to home
Tagged animals, bird, duck, flamingo, lion, location drawings, urban sketch, zoo
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Sheep Shearing
It was Sheep Shearing day at Hidden Villa Farms today. We’ve been excited about going to this ever since our last visit to the farm. Here are Vicki and Hope, two of the border collies who were herding the sheep. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, california, Close to home, Silicon Valley
Tagged collie, dogs, farm, herding, hidden villa, los altos hills, shearing, sheep, spinning
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