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Embrace the Pace: Construction Crews
Drawing things that move Continue reading
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Tagged construction, how-to, location drawing, location drawings, moving, people, sketchbook, urban sketch, urban sketchers
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A tool I love: The Pentel Pocket Brushpen
Sketching with a favorite tool: the Pentel Pocket Brushpen Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Construction, Drink, Everyday Sketches, Food, tools
Tagged brush pen, construction, gin, location drawing, penel pocket brushpen, urban sketch
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Looking through a fence
In trying to put this scene on paper, perhaps I was trying to solve the wrong problem: I wasn’t really interested in drawing the fence. I was interested in the experience of looking through the fence at this view beyond. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Construction, Everyday Sketches, experiments
Tagged berkeley, cityscape, construction, fence, location drawings, urban sketch, urban sketching
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Digger
A walk around a digger, captured in a sketch. Continue reading
Repacking a Sketch Bag
Repacking a sketch kit and ready to sketch anytime!
Posted in california, Close to home, san jose, Silicon Valley
Tagged construction, construction crew, location drawings
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Day 13 at Home: Construction
Day 13 at Home: Construction #urbansketching #usk Continue reading
One Tall Crane
This was a huge construction crane. Every time it spun back and lowered it’s hook, these men would pick up and quickly attach yet another huge air conditioning unit for the crane to pick up. If I had thumbnailed this and figured … Continue reading
Destruction/Construction Part 3
My nieces and I painted this Hokusai-inspired mural (you only see the right half of it here, it’s huge!) on a big empty wall at home a few years ago. That we painted it together was the hardest part of letting it … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Construction, Silicon Valley, Uncategorized
Tagged construction, hokusai, location drawings, urban sketch, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch, wave
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Destruction/Construction Part 2
I’m continuing the series started here where I sketch the taking down and putting back up of a part of our home. Out goes the old linoleum floor, it’s amazing it survived 44 years in the kitchen. Then the floor is leveled … Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Construction, Figure Drawing, Silicon Valley
Tagged almaden, architecture, construction, home, remodelling, renovation
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Destruction/Construction: Part 1
I’ve always loved sketching construction work on the streets: the men in orange safety jackets, the huge machines, things that get broken down and then made new. So it’s a treat to get to sketch a process like that right at home. … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Construction, Figure Drawing
Tagged construction, location drawing, men at work, people, remodelling, urban sketch
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Sketch Away: Travels with my sketchbook 