Category Archives: Construction

Backyard Stuff

Posted on August 4, 2022 by Suhita Shirodkar

Backyard Construction and Learning the names of new Tools Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Construction, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose | Tagged construction, location drawing, location drawings, urban sketch, urban sketchers | 3 Comments

Two small drawings

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Suhita Shirodkar

Two small, unrelated drawings. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Construction, Everyday Sketches, san franciso, Silicon Valley | Tagged location drawing, location drawings, san francisco, succulent, urban sketch, urban sketchers | 3 Comments

A tool I love: The Pentel Pocket Brushpen

Posted on September 20, 2021 by Suhita Shirodkar

Sketching with a favorite tool: the Pentel Pocket Brushpen Continue reading →

Posted in Close to home, Construction, Drink, Everyday Sketches, Food, tools | Tagged brush pen, construction, gin, location drawing, penel pocket brushpen, urban sketch | 2 Comments

Looking through a fence

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Suhita Shirodkar

In trying to put this scene on paper, perhaps I was trying to solve the wrong problem: I wasn’t really interested in drawing the fence. I was interested in the experience of looking through the fence at this view beyond. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Construction, Everyday Sketches, experiments | Tagged berkeley, cityscape, construction, fence, location drawings, urban sketch, urban sketching | 11 Comments

Digger

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Suhita Shirodkar

A walk around a digger, captured in a sketch. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Construction, Everyday Sketches, experiments, san jose, Silicon Valley | Tagged accordion book, accordion fold, construction, digger, location drawing, urban sketch, vehicle | 16 Comments

Finding Action, from a Distance

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Suhita Shirodkar

Finding new ways to draw people Continue reading →

Posted in Close to home, Construction, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose | Tagged pandemic, people, people sketching, sketchbook, urban sketching | 6 Comments

Small Sketches from an eventful week

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Suhita Shirodkar

Bits and pieces from last week. My very last school Halloween Parade (next year I have two middle schoolers, no more school parades…) The usual share of Pikachus, pandas, dinosaurs, unicorns. The bawling baby (in a pull up) took the … Continue reading →

Posted in books, california, Close to home, Construction, Everyday Sketches, Paintings, people, san jose, Silicon Valley | Tagged art show, family, halloween, heartbeat cafe, laloran, location drawing, samovar, sketchbooks, urban sketch, urban sketchers | 3 Comments

Rainbow Pencils

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Suhita Shirodkar

Fun with Rainbow Pencils. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Construction, Silicon Valley, Summer | Tagged california, coffee, location drawings, people, rainbow, starbucks, urban sketchers | 7 Comments

One Tall Crane

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Suhita Shirodkar

This was a huge construction crane. Every time it spun back and lowered it’s hook, these men would pick up and quickly attach yet another huge air conditioning unit for the crane to pick up. If I had thumbnailed this and figured … Continue reading →

Posted in Close to home, Construction, Figure Drawing, people, san jose, Silicon Valley | Tagged construction, construction crew, location drawings, people, urban sketch, urban sketchers, watercolor, watercolor sketch | 7 Comments

Sketching with friends

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Suhita Shirodkar

I usually sketch alone. But last week I had two short little sketch sessions with friends and I’m wondering why we don’t do this more often. There’s something wonderful in being able to chat about just sketching and supplies, sketchbooks and setup, … Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Construction, people, Silicon Valley | Tagged left bank, location drawings, santana row, sketch, urban sketch, urban sketchers, watercolor, whole foods | 8 Comments