Tag Archives: cafe

Close to home

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Suhita Shirodkar

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 | 7 Comments

Keeping at it through the holidays

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Suhita Shirodkar

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 | 8 Comments

Why do you Journal?

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Suhita Shirodkar

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 →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, san jose, Sketch Journal, Vintage Signs, watercolor, Workshop | Tagged babe the muffler man, cafe, coffee, coffee shop, journal, location drawing, Sketch Journal, thanksgiving, the alameda, urban sketching | 5 Comments

State of the Journal

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Suhita Shirodkar

State of the Journal. #sketchjournal #journal #usk #urbansketch #historysanjose #coffee #messyjournal Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, san jose, Sketch Journal, Uncategorized | Tagged apple, cafe, coffee, color testing, history san jose, journal, location drawing, Sketch Journal, urban sketching | 15 Comments

Storytelling Sketches

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Suhita Shirodkar

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 | 2 Comments

Friday Catchup

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Suhita Shirodkar

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 →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, Uncategorized | Tagged architecture, cafe, castillero middle school, coffee shop, location drawing, music, musicians, orchestra, people, urban sketchers, urban sketching | 8 Comments

One hundred people: a roundup

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Suhita Shirodkar

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 →

Posted in Animals, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose, Silicon Valley | Tagged #OneWeek100People2017, cafe, gesture drawing, location drawing, people, people sketches, taekwondo, urban sketchers | 16 Comments