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Tag Archives: sign
Drawing the Everyday (and a month-long challenge from two awesome artists)
Drawing the Everyday (and a month-long challenge from two awesome artists) Continue reading
Posted in challenge, Close to home, Everyday Sketches
Tagged everyday sketch, location drawings, motorcycle, sign, urban sketch, urban sketchers, vintage sign
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Little Signposts of Urban Life
Beautiful stuff is everywhere around you if you look beyond accepted standards. The things that catch my eye, I stop and sketch. And just the act of connection and observation for that period of time means I see a beauty in them that I would never see without the pause. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, Silicon Valley
Tagged covid, location drawings, sign, signage, urban sketch
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Any Random Corner
Carry around a little book. Draw the little corners. Make the mundane special. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches
Tagged everyday sketch, location drawing, location drawings, sign, urban sketching, vintage sign
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Line first or color first?
Line first or color first? Process shots. Continue reading
Posted in california, Everyday Sketches, san jose, Silicon Valley, Vintage Signs, watercolor
Tagged arrow sign, Dealin' Dollar Dan, location drawing, san jose, sign, urban sketch, Vintage Signs
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Why Save a Sign?
Why Save a Sign? Morgan Newby has a great reason for wanting to save this wonderful sign of a cowboy that sits on his lot. Continue reading
Posted in Activism, california, Everyday Sketches, san jose, Silicon Valley, Vintage Signs, watercolor
Tagged Dealin' Dollar Dan, location drawing, san jose, sign, urban sketch, Vintage Signs
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Would you walk into this store?
Look at this really welcoming, friendly guy, wouldn’t you walk into a store if he towered above it? I guess ‘welcoming’ isn’t the point of the green gorilla. He certainly did make for an eye-catching ‘STORE CLOSING’ sign. I stopped and sketched … Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Silicon Valley
Tagged california, gorilla, inflatable, location drawings, monterey road, people, san jose, sign, signage, store, urban sketch, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch
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