Tag Archives: car

Day 29: Cake and Cars

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Suhita Shirodkar

Day 29: Cake and Cars #uskathome #sketchathome #stayhome Continue reading →

Posted in Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose, Silicon Valley | Tagged car, Everyday Sketches, location drawing, peoplesketching, routine, sketchandrepeat, sketching at home, uskathome | 7 Comments

Why do you sketch everyday?

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Suhita Shirodkar

Why do you sketch everyday? Continue reading →

Posted in Everyday Sketches | Tagged california, car, cat sketches, cats, food, fruit, kids, location drawing, location drawings, music, olives, peach, pear, people, urban sketch, urban sketchers, violin, watercolor sketch | 28 Comments

Manchester 2016 : Day 1

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Suhita Shirodkar

Day 1 of the Urban Sketchers Symposium, Manchester. Continue reading →

Posted in manchester, Uncategorized | Tagged canal, car, location drawings, manchester, symposium, urban sketchers, urban sketchers symposium, water | 8 Comments

Fancy Cars

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Suhita Shirodkar

Can you tell that the people fascinated me a lot more than the cars at this fancy car event at Santana Row in San Jose? They posed by the cars, photographed them, peered into their interiors and rhapsodized about this model versus … Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, san jose, Silicon Valley | Tagged car, gesture drawing, location drawings, luxury car, people, santana row, urban sketch, urban sketchers | 8 Comments

Plain white water tower

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Suhita Shirodkar

This plain white water tower and smokestack on 5th street in San Jose once belonged to the American Can Company and stand as a quiet reminders of the agricultural past of Silicon Valley. Now this little forgotten pocket of San Jose is where … Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, san jose, Silicon Valley, Vintage Signs | Tagged Amercian can Company, california, canning, car, history, location drawings, san jose, urban sketch, urban sketchers, vintage sign, vintage signage, water tower, watertower | 2 Comments

Car Wash

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Suhita Shirodkar

Quick-sketching a car wash. Continue reading →

Posted in california, san jose, Silicon Valley | Tagged car, car wash, family, location drawings, people, urban sketchers, urban sketching, watercolor sketch | 5 Comments

Recent Obsessions. And Brush Pen Reviews.

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Suhita Shirodkar

There are themes I return to all the time, so I guess I have many recent obsessions. There’s vintage cars that I understand nothing about but love the shapes of. And there’s vintage signage, like this sign for the Sands Motel on … Continue reading →

Posted in tools | Tagged car, food, reviews, shallot, tools, vegetable, vintage car, vintage sign, vintage signage | 16 Comments

Too little sketching

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Suhita Shirodkar

Too little sketching this past week. How did that happen? Most of these are done today. Got to remember: sketch everyday. or atleast almost everyday. Palo Alto airport on a very grey day. Lots of planes, many with ‘For Sale” signs. … Continue reading →

Posted in california | Tagged airplane, california, car, kids, location drawings, palo lato, plane, suhita, truck, urban sketch, vintage car | 5 Comments

Cars

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Suhita Shirodkar

For someone who can’t tell one make of car from another, it’s surprising how many cars I draw. When I drive a car, it’s something that takes me from point A to point B. Hopefully it has low gas mileage, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged car, cars, drawing cars, fire engine, fire truck, location drawings, sketch, suburbia, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch | 4 Comments