Tag Archives: art

A day in San Francisco

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Suhita Shirodkar

Golden Gate Park, and Much at SFMoMA Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, san franciso, Silicon Valley, Summer | Tagged art, golden gate park, location drawing, mark di suvero, san francisco, sculpture, sfmoma, sketching art, urban sketchers | 5 Comments

Take a hike, Mr. President

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Suhita Shirodkar

I’m posting some sketches of beautiful places on our planet. National Parks and other wild and beautiful places. Places you might recognize and places you might not. And I’m hashtagging them #TakeAHikeMrPresident . It’s a request to one man to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, california | Tagged Activism, art, national parks, paris agreement, political | 26 Comments

The New Guinea Gardens at Stanford

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Suhita Shirodkar

In the gardens with a friend. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, san jose, Silicon Valley | Tagged art, garden, location drawing, new guinea garden, papua new guinea, sculpture, stanford, Stanford University, urban sketchers | 11 Comments

Beauty- Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Suhita Shirodkar

This show at the San Jose Museum of Art deserves a lot more than the hour and half I was there, so I’ll be back for more, But meanwhile, here’s a little peek at some the the Beauties in the show. … Continue reading →

Posted in california, san jose, Silicon Valley | Tagged art, beauty, cooper hewitt, everyday sketch, haas brothers, location drawing, museum, san jose, san jose museum of art, urban sketchers | 5 Comments

Annual Art Show

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Suhita Shirodkar

Sketching art and artists Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, people, Silicon Valley | Tagged art, art show, artist, books, location drawings, los alamitos, los alamitos elementary school, music, people, people sketching, school, urban sketchers, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Old favorites at LACMA

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Suhita Shirodkar

Even the quickest stop in LA deserves a couple of hours at LACMA. And that’s all we had, so we visited some of our old favorites. Jesús Rafael Soto’s Penetrable is a favorite with the family. Both my daughter and … Continue reading →

Posted in california | Tagged art, drawing art, LACMA, location drawing, location drawings, Los Angeles, museum, urban sketch, urban sketchers | 1 Comment

Go There! San Jose Museum of Art

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Suhita Shirodkar

Haven’t been the the San Jose Museum of Art lately? Go now. So many reasons to go: Right now there’s a thought provoking and more than a little scary show called Covert Operations : Investigation the Known Unknowns (a term borrowed from a Donald Rumsfeld … Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Silicon Valley | Tagged art, location drawings, museum, san jose, san jose museum of art, urban sketchers | 2 Comments

Scott Weaver and his amazing toothpick sculpture

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Suhita Shirodkar

When I think of Rolling Through the Bay by Scott Weaver , I think of Gaudí’s Sagrada Família. Rolling Through the Bay has been 40 years in the making. And it just keeps growing and growing and growing. Ask Scott when it;s … Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, people, Portrait, Silicon Valley | Tagged art, california, family, kids, location drawings, museum, scott weaver, sculpture, toothpick, urban sketchers | 3 Comments

Drawing Art

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Suhita Shirodkar

I like the idea of making marks that capture the marks of an artist. Which makes sketching in a museum a lot of fun. Like everything else I sketch, I can’t JUST draw the artwork. I like capturing it in … Continue reading →

Posted in Close to home, Silicon Valley | Tagged art, drawing art, family, location drawings, Mark Dean Veca, museum, san jose, san jose museum of art, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch | 3 Comments