What a great day! I flew to Austin the night before to meet up with Lisa]]>
Saturday October 25th was SketchCrawl #20. I flew to Austin the night before to meet up with Lisa who drove down from the Dallas area. She got the word out and six local sketchers joined us for the event. What a great day! The weather was perfect and we were able to walk around central Austin and sketch a bunch of great subjects.
I had never been to Austin before. We picked the city as our destination because it was easy for both of us to get to and we wanted to spend time there. What a cool place! Here are some photos from the day:
Me, Sketching Stevie
Me, Studying the Dome
(not George
)
Nancy, Lisa and Anna
Ed and Janet
The date for SketchCrawl #21 has been set: Saturday January 10, 2009. Where will you be sketching?
See Also:
Last month I went on a lively sketching trip to Santa Fe]]>I love Santa Fe and try to go every year or two. The light, spaces, color and food are amazing!
See Also:
- Santa Fe 2008 Sketch Grids
- New Mexico 2007 Sketchbook, Part One: Taos
- New Mexico 2007 Sketchbook, Part Two: Santa Fe
- Other Travel Sketchbooks
And Don’t Miss:
]]>
Last month I went on a lively sketching trip with Lisa and friends to Santa Fe
]]>
Canyon Road Grid (larger)
Last month I went on a lively trip to Santa Fe with book club friends. There we met up with former member and fellow sketchblogger Lisa Reed and had a fabulous time exploring, eating, sketching and laughing.
I have a bunch of sketches from the trip to share, and thought I’d start off with the grid pages.
The top one is inspired by pages Lisa and I did this spring on a SketchCrawl in San Francisco. These are very fun to do! I draw out the boxes first, and then find little subjects to fill them.
The second grid is similar to one I did this summer on a cabin trip, and chronicles each day. This is a great way to capture the often forgotten moments of a trip.
And hey: to all the many of you who have inquired about my whereabouts and well being lately – thank you! I have indeed been busy, but am still here and have much to share. Stay tuned for plenty more sketch-stuff. In fact, next weekend Lisa and I are meeting up in Austin to celebrate the 20th World Wide Sketchcrawl. Care to join us?
Continued:
See Also:
- New Mexico 2007 Sketchbook, Part One: Taos
- New Mexico 2007 Sketchbook, Part Two: Santa Fe
- Other Travel Sketchbooks
And Don’t Miss:
]]>
On our recent cabin trip I had plenty of time to seek out sketching subjects]]>
Horsetail Falls (larger)
On our recent cabin trip I had plenty of time to seek out sketching subjects. For some reason though I always have trouble finding things to sketch there.
The forest is teeming with detail; it can be overwhelming. There are not a lot of large shapes or distinct value patterns either.
Or maybe they are there and I just can’t see them? I’d like to be able to sketch more of the natural areas, but it seems I can’t see the forest for the trees!
At any rate, these were fun to do and I intend to go back soon and sketch some more.
]]>
This time around I used an Ultra Fine Sharpie for the drawing, rather than my usual]]>
Leah’s Moly So Far (larger)
It’s time for another round of the International Moleskine Exchange. This month I got to work in Leah’s moly. Her theme is “Enter the Carnival”. Great idea: this was sure fun to do.
This time I used an Ultra Fine Sharpie for the drawing, rather than my usual fountain pen, and the same watercolor pencils that I’ve been using, for color.
More Entries in this Project:
My Moly_x Drawings
For More Online Information:
Moly_x Explained [requires Flickr login]
Moly_x Image Pool
Moly_x_20 Project Blog
... but I did manage a quickie Crawl in my backyard before the sun set]]>
Alstroemeria (larger)
Saturday was SketchCrawl 19 day. I couldn’t join the San Francisco group this time around, but did manage a quickie Crawl in my backyard before the sun set.
It was unseasonably warm: a real summer day. A giant bee kept following me around and blocking my view of the best flowers. I felt like I had a sketching companion after all! (And he didn’t even sting me…)
Related:
]]>
I made the first sketch while sitting in my parked car listening]]>
A quick couple of sketches here. I made the first sketch while sitting in my parked car listening to Danny Gregory’s excellent podcast on sketching and sketchbooks. And then later in the day I sketched the fading white rose in my backyard.
]]>
Hawaii idea intrigued me, so I decided to print out some of my previous beach sketches]]>
Sketch in Progress (larger)
I just completed my International Moleskine Exchange contribution for this month. I am in group 20 (aka moly_x_20) and got to work in Lee’s Moly this time around. His Hawaii idea intrigued me, so I decided to keep with that and printed out some of my previous beach sketches for reference. I included some little critters too, to tie into Lee’s playful theme.
I’ve been experimenting a bit with how to best add color to this paper. Last time I used watercolor pencils, but this time I combined those with regular Prismacolor colored pencils of which I have many. I think I prefer the results with watercolor pencils alone: I’ll go back to that next time.
Update:
Lisa (rightside) has done the next entry in this book.
Check it out!
More Entries in this Project:
My Moly_x Drawings
For More Online Information:
Moly_x Explained [requires Flickr login]
Moly_x Image Pool
Moly_x_20 Project Blog
the view across Shattuck Avenue here in North Berkeley from Bar Cesar where we]]>
North Berkeley, Shattuck Avenue (larger)
In February Lisa and I did a mini-sketchcrawl around Berkeley and I never posted those sketches. Well, here they are!
The first sketch is the view across Shattuck Avenue here in North Berkeley from Bar Cesar where we had lunch. Although you wouldn’t know it, this is very close to the same view I sketched last month at twilight: same two trees there on the median strip.
After a quick North Berkeley tour we headed over to the UC Berkeley campus where we sketched the base of the Campanile Tower. I love the London Plane Trees on that plaza. They are wonderfully sculptural and go though dramatic changes throughout the year.
]]>
This is my first contribution to the International Moleskine Exchange mail-based art exchange]]>The Moly_x_20 Project
This is my first contribution to the popular International Moleskine Exchange (aka moly_x) mail-based art exchange project. The idea is that artists work in small groups filling accordion-style Pocket Moleskine notebooks that are mailed, round robin fashion, around the group. Thus far there are 29 groups formed: I am in group 20 (aka moly_x_20). Each group has an individual blog to track partipation and communications, and all projects post images to the unified Flickr group: a great place to monitor the progress of the project at large.
For my own book I decided to do a variation of a sketch I did recently in Napa. I’d never really reprised a sketch before but found it a lot of fun to figure out what to change and add to make it work in the new format. The paper in these Moleskine books has a waxy finish which is resistant to watercolors (which is why I rebind Moleskines for my own use), so I also had to do some experimentation to find a similar way to add color.
I discovered that watercolor pencils work fairly well in both wet and dry form. The pencils I used are Caran d’Ache Supracolor II, of which I happened to have a few assorted colors on hand. I think it’s time to go out and round out my collection of colors, in anticipation of this project!
Update:
Lisa (rightside) has done a beautiful next entry in my book.
Check it out!
More Entries in this Project:
My Moly_x Drawings
For More Online Information:
Moly_x Explained [requires Flickr login]
Moly_x Image Pool
Moly_x_20 Project Blog