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Amsterdam: A day in Edam, actually.
A day in the village of Edam. Continue reading
Amsterdam: Windmill and some easy-sketching
Amsterdam: Bloemenmarkt and Rembrandt Square Continue reading
Posted in amsterdam, Drink, Food, people, Sketch Journal, Travel
Tagged amsterdam, bicycle, boat, bridge, cafe, canal, food, location drawing, symposium, teaching, urban sketchers symposium, windmill
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Day 14-17: Direct Watercolor Challenge
Day 7-13: Direct Watercolor Challenge. Chugging along. Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Everyday Sketches, India, Paintings, watercolor
Tagged 30x30directwatercolor2019, cafe, chinatown, coffee, direct watercolor, jacaranda, small paintings, traffic, watercolor
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Close to home
Drawing close to home, and everyday practices. Do you have go-to subjects and locations? Is your sketching practice built around a schedule or does it fit into bits of your day, as mine does? I’d love to know. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Drink, Everyday Sketches, Food, people, Uncategorized
Tagged cafe, california poppy, coffee, everyday sketching, landscape watercolor, poppies, urban sketch
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Keeping at it through the holidays
Keeping at sketching through December… Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Drink, Everyday Sketches, Food, people, san jose, Sketch Journal, Vintage Signs, watercolor, Workshop
Tagged cafe, coffee, coffee shop, journal, location drawing, Sketch Journal, urban sketching
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Why do you Journal?
Giving the question” Why do I Journal?” some thought helped me lay some ground rules and goals for my journaling practice. #sketchjournal #journal #usk #urbansketch #historysanjose #coffee #messyjournal Continue reading
State of the Journal
State of the Journal. #sketchjournal #journal #usk #urbansketch #historysanjose #coffee #messyjournal Continue reading
Storytelling Sketches
I like to think of every sketch as a story. Not always a big one, with a grand plot and story arc. Stories can be quiet little everyday things tucked into bigger pieces. Like this Saturday morning sketch at Social … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose, Silicon Valley, Vintage Signs
Tagged band, cafe, coffee, coffee shop, locatin drawing, music, orchestra, san jose, social policy, urban sketch, vintage, Vintage Signs
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Friday Catchup
It’s been a rare not a single sketch this week kinda week. So here’s some catchup posting of stuff from last week. This house on Reed and 7th street, in downtown San Jose: I’ve been wanting to draw it for a … Continue reading
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
