Category Archives: tools

Hakone Gardens

Posted on June 8, 2022 by Suhita Shirodkar

Hakone Gardens, Saratoga. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, reviews, supplies, tools, Uncategorized | Tagged hakone gardens, japanese garden, kakimori, nature, saratoga, sketchbook, trees, urban sketch | 5 Comments

Three Tools

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Suhita Shirodkar

Three tools I love, two I’ve used for a long time and one that’s new… Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, reviews, supplies, tools, Uncategorized | Tagged hakone gardens, kakimori, nature, sketchbook, trees, urban sketch | 2 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

Color Obsessions

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Suhita Shirodkar

My current color obsession, if you haven’t noticed 🙂 Continue reading →

Posted in experiments, studies, tools | Tagged apache sunset, apache sunset ink, color obsession, color theory, orange | 2 Comments

Sketching a Teashop in Myanmar

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Suhita Shirodkar

A few days ago, I posted about doing a Sketching PlayLab livestream with Paul Wang, where we chatted and sketched from a photo. Here are some images from that session. The top of this image is the photo reference we … Continue reading →

Posted in people, supplies, teaching, tools, virtual sketching | Tagged people sketching, sketching playlab, tea, usk, usk talks | 5 Comments

What’s in Your Kit?

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Suhita Shirodkar

Supplies, supplies, supplies… Continue reading →

Posted in supplies, tools | 5 Comments

Posca Markers Gas Station

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Suhita Shirodkar

An urban cacophony, captured with markers. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, san jose, Silicon Valley, tools | Tagged city of saratoga, gas station, location drawing, marker, posca, urban, urban sketch | 1 Comment

Wax Crayon and Oil Pastels

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Suhita Shirodkar

I grew up using wax crayons and oil pastels a lot, so going back to them makes me paint and mess around like a child, and that’s always a good thing. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, Summer, tools | Tagged drawing, location drawings, people sketching, vehicles | 6 Comments

Scratching the Surface

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Suhita Shirodkar

Some days I draw just for the joy of mark-making, to pull a mark across paper, to feel the drag, the resistance, the imperfection of the line. Drawing with less familiar tools is a little frustrating: they don’t work like I think they will, they don’t hold ink, they bend and snap… But it also makes me really aware of the marks I make. Continue reading →