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Tag Archives: usk
Farmer’s Market Season
Farmer’s Market season is here (and People-sketching on location is back!) Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose, Silicon Valley
Tagged accordion fold, farmers market, location drawings, maret, people, people sketching, urban sketch, usk
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Car Sketching as Urban Sketching
If you’ve been wanting to sketch outside but haven’t tried it yet, or if you’ve gotten rusty with doing it in the last year, Car Sketching might help jumpstart your practice.
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Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches
Tagged henrys hi-life, location drawings, palm tree, san jose sign, urban sketch, usk, vintage sign
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Sketching a Teashop in Myanmar
A few days ago, I posted about doing a Sketching PlayLab livestream with Paul Wang, where we chatted and sketched from a photo. Here are some images from that session. The top of this image is the photo reference we … Continue reading
Posted in people, supplies, teaching, tools, virtual sketching
Tagged people sketching, sketching playlab, tea, usk, usk talks
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Everything but the Kitchen Sink
A triad of colors, a reed pen and lots of texture. Oh, and the kitchen sink. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged kitchen sink, sketchbook locationdrawing, urban sketch, usk, uskathome
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Redwoods: Three Impressions
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
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Jacaranda
Jacaranda season Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Everyday Sketches, flowers, Silicon Valley, studies, Summer
Tagged jacaranda, location drawings, urban sketchers, usk, watercolor
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Sketching as a Question: Connecting the dots
Sketching as a Question: Connecting the dots #usktalks #urbansketching #usk Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Education, Faces Of Recovery, people, Portrait, reportage, san jose, Silicon Valley, teaching
Tagged Faces Of Recovery, san jose, urban sketchers, usk, usktalks, vintage sign
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Sketching as a Question: USk Talks
This weekend I had the huge honor not only of being on a USk Talks session, but also on sharing the hour with one of the most inspiring sketchers, USk founder Gabi Campanario. If you missed the session, it is here: Continue reading
Posted in Education, Everyday Sketches, teaching
Tagged gabi campanario, urban sketching, usk, usk talks
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Chinatown, San Francisco
Sketching in Chinatown, San Francisco Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, san franciso, Vintage Signs, watercolor
Tagged chinatown, crowd, lanterns, li po, location drawing, people, san francisco, urban sketching, usk, Vintage Signs
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India 2019: Bombay Meri Jaan
India 2019: Biryani, Bombay Sandwiches and Babulnath temple. Continue reading
Posted in Food, India, people, Travel
Tagged babulnath, babulnath temple, biryani, Bombay, crowds, family, food vendor, india, khar, location drawing, Mumbai, people sketches, santa cruz, sketches of india, temple, travel sketch, urban sketching, usk
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