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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
Pages from last weekend
Remembering with a sketchbook. Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Everyday Sketches, san jose, Silicon Valley
Tagged cafe, egypt, egyptian museum, location drawing, museum, music, recital, urban sketchers
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Caffe Frascati on a Friday Night
Local talent on a friday night at Caffe Frascati, San Jose. Continue reading
Posted in california, san jose, Silicon Valley, Uncategorized
Tagged cafe, caffe frascati, location drawings, music, musicians, people, portrait, san jose, sketch, urban sketchers
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Drawing in layers
Working from Peet’s Tea and Coffee on a cold, wet day. The good part is I can take a quick break from work every so often and do a sketch. On the flip side, I don’t move to a new seat ( too much … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, people, Silicon Valley
Tagged cafe, coffee shop, Peet's Tea and Coffee, suhita, urban sketch, urban sketcher
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Winter Beach Weekend
A winter weekend at the beach. Pismo , California. There’s the food: People line up for the fish tacos and clam chowder at Splash Cafe. They’re worth the wait. My kids and I polished off a rack of ribs at … Continue reading
Posted in california, Travel
Tagged beach, birds, cafe, california, family, fog, food, kids, location drawings, nature, people, pigeon, pismo, pismo beach, seagull, tidepools, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch
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Everyday sketches, January 2012
The trouble with coming back from an exciting trip is getting back to sketching the everyday. And to make it harder, everything literally pales in comparison to the madness and color of Mexico City. I feel like the color has gone … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, people, Portrait
Tagged almaden, cafe, california, home, location drawings, people, suburbia, urban sketchers, winter
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Blogging- and sketching- again
So the big trip to India is over, and I’m back in California. It’s always easy for me to sketch a lot when I travel: new place, new things to see, no day-job to go to…and it’s always hard to … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home
Tagged almaden, band, cafe, california, church, family, fire engine, location drawings, los gatos, music, people, stanford, suburbia, traffic lights
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