Tag Archives: redwoods

A sketch is a memory

Posted on May 3, 2024 by Suhita Shirodkar

Sometimes the sketches are ‘meh’ but the memories are amazing. Continue reading →

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Sketching the Redwoods: A free draw-together video

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Suhita Shirodkar

This morning I enjoyed sketching together with many of you on Zoom. I hope you will share your sketches on the chat thread we started after the session, so I can see them all! (If you have already, thank you: … Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, teaching | Tagged newsletter, redwoods, substack, virtual sketching, virtual travel, zoom sketching | 1 Comment

More Redwoods. And a free Zoom sketch-together session coming up very soon!

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Suhita Shirodkar

Hope you’re joining in for a free Zoom sketch-together session coming up very soon? Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, san jose, Workshop | Tagged location drawings, newsletter, redwoods, urban sketchers, zoom | Leave a comment

Back Home

Posted on September 8, 2023 by Suhita Shirodkar

Back home Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches | Tagged california, farmers market, landscape painting, location drawing, location drawings, people, redwoods, urban sketch, urban sketchers | 5 Comments

A short break in the Sierras, Part 2 of 2

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Suhita Shirodkar

More art from the Sierras. Continue reading →

Posted in california, watercolor | Tagged calaveras, california, giant sequoia, location drawings, nature drawing, redwoods, urban sketch, urban sketchers | 1 Comment

A short break in the Sierras, Part 1 of 2

Posted on April 27, 2021 by Suhita Shirodkar

A few days in the Sierras. Continue reading →

Posted in california, watercolor | Tagged calaveras, california, giant sequoia, location drawings, nature drawing, redwoods, urban sketch, urban sketchers | 7 Comments

Redwoods: Three Impressions

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Suhita Shirodkar

Painting the Redwoods on the coast near Mendocino. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Paintings, Supplies and Materials, watercolor | Tagged location drawings, mendocino, nature, redwoods, tools, urbansketching, usk, watercolor | 10 Comments

Scratching the Surface

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Suhita Shirodkar

Some days I draw just for the joy of mark-making, to pull a mark across paper, to feel the drag, the resistance, the imperfection of the line. Drawing with less familiar tools is a little frustrating: they don’t work like I think they will, they don’t hold ink, they bend and snap… But it also makes me really aware of the marks I make. Continue reading →

Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, Summer, tools | Tagged big basin, big basin state park, drawing, location drawings, redwoods, sketchingplaylab | 9 Comments

More sketching near home

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Suhita Shirodkar

We’ve had so much rain in Northern California this winter and spring (and it’s still raining, which is so unusual for us) that it is super-green everywhere, and the lakes and waterfalls are pretty spectacular. This waterfall was at the … Continue reading →