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Category Archives: Construction
A tool I love: The Pentel Pocket Brushpen
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
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Looking through a fence
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
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Digger
A walk around a digger, captured in a sketch. Continue reading
Finding Action, from a Distance
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
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Small Sketches from an eventful week
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
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Rainbow Pencils
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
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One Tall Crane
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
Sketching with friends
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
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Destruction/Construction Part 3
My nieces and I painted this Hokusai-inspired mural (you only see the right half of it here, it’s huge!) on a big empty wall at home a few years ago. That we painted it together was the hardest part of letting it … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Construction, Silicon Valley, Uncategorized
Tagged construction, hokusai, location drawings, urban sketch, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch, wave
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Destruction/Construction Part 2
I’m continuing the series started here where I sketch the taking down and putting back up of a part of our home. Out goes the old linoleum floor, it’s amazing it survived 44 years in the kitchen. Then the floor is leveled … Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Construction, Figure Drawing, Silicon Valley
Tagged almaden, architecture, construction, home, remodelling, renovation
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Sketch Away: Travels with my sketchbook 