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Everyday Summer Sketches
Everyday sketches from the summer. Boba Tea is a family favorite. I think I discovered a new one I like: Panda Boba, milk tea with a mix of black and white boba. Are you more likely to tip if Yoda … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose, Silicon Valley, Sketch Journal, Summer
Tagged boba, food, lifeguard, location drawing, music, summer, swim, violin
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A week in sketches
Random sketches from the week. Continue reading
Posted in Animals, california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose, Summer, Vintage Signs
Tagged cat, donut, doughnut, jacaranda, location drawing, pink box, rollow doughnut, sofa market, swim, tree, urban sketchers, usk, wing's
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The lonely lifeguard
However many kids there are at our community swimming pool, I still think the lifeguards, high up in their chairs, look lonely. There’s action all around them, but they don’t participate in the fun. Their job, instead, is to stay uninvolved in … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, san jose, Uncategorized
Tagged lifeguard, location drawings, lonely, summer, swim, swimming pool, urban sketch, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch
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Cobalt Teal Blue
Do you have colors you get fascinated by every once in a while? When you carry around a small, limited palette like I do, you need to make sensible color choices, but every so often I have in there a fun … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bird, blue, california, cobalt teal blue, family, location drawings, macaw, plein air, swim, urban sketchers, watercolor painting
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Swim Meet Sketches
Swim Meet Sketches. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, people, Silicon Valley
Tagged california, location drawings, people, swim, swim meet, urban sketch, urban sketchers
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Swim season comes to an end
No, the summer’s not over, but swim-meet season just ended this weekend with one final big meet. I blogged some of my swim sketches from the start of the season here. Here are more sketches from the end of the season. … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Collage
Tagged location drawings, people, people drawing, suhita, summer, swim, urban sketch, watercolor
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Pass the Journal
Pass the Journal is an art project organized by Strathmore. Artists from all over the globe fill a spread of one of 12 journals and then pass it along to another artist of their choice. My friend Nina sent the journal along to me. … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Silicon Valley
Tagged backyard, collaborative project, journal, strathmore, summer, swim
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Summer is here!
It’s summer vacation when my flickr stream of sketches starts to look like this. Long, lazy afternoons of reading. Lots of people sketches, done at our community pool while the kids swim. And. (expect to see a lot of these … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, people, Silicon Valley
Tagged people, people sketching, summer, swim
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Last Post of 2014.
One last post for 2014. Thank you for following my blog. Posting here has been an invaluable part of the learning process to me. It helps me articulate what I do, and gain insight from your comments, questions and input. A few sketches from the … Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Drink, people, Silicon Valley
Tagged california, costa rica, drink, location drawing, swim, tea cup, urban sketch, winter
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Swim Class
A quick sketch while Kavya takes a swim class.
Posted in california, Close to home, people
Tagged almaden, california, family, kids, location drawings, people, suburbia, swim
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Sketch Away: Travels with my sketchbook 