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Super Quick sketches
It’s been a week of super quick captures, most under 10 minutes. When they’re this quick, it’s very hit-or-miss: a well-captured single line gesture makes a sketch work, and one that goes awry… you get how that goes. Still, the quick … Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Silicon Valley
Tagged california, location drawings, quick sketch, san jose, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch
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When the first one doesn’t work…
There’s this fabulous looking sign that just reads ‘Time’ over a clock located above a shopfront on the corner of Bascom and San Carlos in San Jose. Turns out it’s the Time Deli which has been around since 1950. I had … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Silicon Valley
Tagged deli, food, location drawings, san jose, sketch, urban sketchers, vintage sign, vintage signage, watercolor sketch
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Western Appliance and Capri Motel
I’d love to say I was experimenting with a new technique here. Actually, I didn’t realize that my brush pen had water-soluble ink in it. Coloring over my linework made for an ‘interesting’ effect :) Here’s another quick sketch of that same sign. When … Continue reading
More ‘vintage’ signs
I sketched two signs this week to add to my vintage sign collection. Trouble is, I don’t know how old they are, or very much about them. Both of them are in San Jose, California, and if you’re familiar with … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Silicon Valley
Tagged family, location drawings, san jose, urban sketchers, vintage sign, vintage signage, watercolor sketch
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More from the Farmers’ Market
This might just turn into a summer of sketching the Farmers’ Market every Sunday. Here are this week’s sketches. Usually I choose what to focus on: is it the produce that’s the focus of the sketch? Or is it the … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, people, Silicon Valley
Tagged almaden, california, family, farmers market, fruit, location drawings, people, san jose, sketch, summer, urban sketchers, vegetable, watercolor sketch
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California Theater and the Green Cow, San Jose
The California Theater in downtown San Jose is one of those happy-endings stories: an ornate little building from the 1920s that was shuttered for years, and then renovated in the early 2ooos and is now the shared home of Opera … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Silicon Valley
Tagged almaden, california, california theater, cow, location drawings, marquee, san jose, urban sketchers, Utah, vintage sign, vintage signage, watercolor sketch
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More vintage signs in San Jose
To those of you that wrote in and told me about signs I must sketch in the South Bay, thank you! Here are a few recent sketches, most from your suggestions. Cambrian Park Plaza with it’s charming carousel. The Plaza … Continue reading
