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Category Archives: Animals
Mostly black and white
My daily sketching practice has gotten a bit, shall we say, sketchy lately. So to try and get back to little studies last week, I decided to try and draw everyday: not big ambitious pieces, but with some focus: working … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, california, Close to home, Drink, Everyday Sketches, Food, people, supplies, Supplies and Materials, tools
Tagged black and white, cat, cat sketch, everyday sketch, monochrome, tea, teacup sketch, value, value study
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Heading South
Last week, the kids and I jumped in the car and headed south. The week began well, with fish tacos at Splash Cafe, Pismo Beach. And Pismo is always beautiful. I asked my son to take a picture of me … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, california, supplies, Supplies and Materials, Travel
Tagged animals, diary, pismo beach, safari park, San Diego, sketchbook, sketchnoting, socal, splash cafe
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On assignment @ Hoot & Howl
You know you have a dream gig when it’s so much fun you think “I get paid to do this?“. That was my Saturday evening: reportage sketching at Happy Hollow Park & Zoo‘s Hoot & Howl fundraiser. Hoot & Howl is … Continue reading
Cat sketching
Cats, cats and more cats… Continue reading
Posted in Animals, california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, Uncategorized
Tagged animal, cat, cat cafe, cat drwaings, cats, location drawing, san jose, the dancing cat, urban sketches
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Kauai: the little stuff in between
Little sketches that don’t really fit any big themes. People on vacation. Lots of flowered dresses and plumeria, real and fake, tucked behind ears. See those phone numbers at the bottom of the sketch above? They’re numbers for doctors. My … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Travel
Tagged chicken, hawaii, hula, kauai, location drawing, luau, music, people, people sketches, rooster, urban sketching
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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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Sketch Away: Travels with my sketchbook 