Moleskine Sketches
Sketchbook Sketches
Recycled Packaging-Paper Sketches
Watercolor Sketches
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November Sketches
Travel
Another Oroville Getaway
It’s nice to drive outta town, to head over mountains and follow delta rivers. Nothing like a place to stay with nothing to do — nothing but putting marks on paper. (Click for bigger views.)
Managed to catch this view of Oroville’s Cemetary on the back of some recycled packaging paper.
Kept drawing fast, whatever was in front of me, then added hues with watercolor paints and pencils.
On Recycled Packaging Paper
Taking inspiration from Peter Rush, started drawing on recycled packaging paper, mostly tea boxes, pizza and cereal boxes, and aTV dinner box. Corrugated paper didn’t work so well. Click for larger images…
Watercolor Fun
Also started painting more, taping “practice” watercolor paper onto a clipboard, then playing with wet washes and drawing what I find in the dried paint…
Other times, drew out things in pen-and-ink, then laid in washes after that…
Turns out, drawing and painting are very separate tasks and yet so symbiotic, each depending on the other to enhance its best qualities…
Some pages got divvied up into quadrants, so I painted out small thumbnails of things I passed on my daily walks through San Francisco.
Mostly, it’s just nice to capture a moment, to lock in the feeling that caused my hand to reach for the pen.
From Another Sketchbook
These are mostly watercolor pencil or plain watercolor in an old inexpensive sketchbook. That it’s old and inexpensive gives me the freedom to try new things and make mistakes, which I do a lot! Click an image to enlarge.
A walk through Glen Park
San Francisco isn’t all skyscrapers and Victorian facades. There’s a few secret pockets. Glen Park is one of them. Lots of green and pedestrian friendly…
Interesting things to find just laying around…
A bit of the country in the middle of the city…
Two Sunsets
Saw this view while walking yesterday afternoon…
Drew this view this morning…
