Balboa Park Rose Garden

This is the view of the museum at Balboa Park. I was trying a large brush and large shapes.

When my friends showed up I pulled out my small sketchbook and painted Stephen sketching.

Coptic Stitch

I finally finished my large sketchbook (10 x 11.5 inches). I have been afraid of doing the Coptic stitch and talked to my friend Stephen about it every time I saw him, I looked at videos and read directions over and over. I was so proud when I finished it I showed him and he gave me his stamp of approval.

The nice thing about the book is it is made from materials that were given to me by artist friends. Davey Board: Kathy Przekopp, Cover paper: Doris Bertch, Craft paper: Diane DeMers Chen, Watercolor paper: Jennise Ashley and Francesca Albini. Thank you friends. I also used gesso on some old watercolor paintings for paper.

Figure Drawing at North park

A fun morning with Rachel, Stephen, Andy, and Leon at North Park.

The trip to North Park, San Diego

The trip to north park was just as fun as the figure drawing session. I got to see Stephen, Rachel, and Sami there. The model was Valerie.

I think that song was playing the last time I drove down there too.

City Farmers Nursery with the San Diego Urban Sketchers Meetup Group

My sketch and a video of the morning.

 



Von Dutch flying eyeball

reinterpretation of the Von Dutch flying eyeball
 a sticker my friend Stephen gave me

Rose Garden, Balboa Park, San Diego

Drawing with friends after work today...

Stephen's Bicycle

Stephen, Leon, Manda, _ , _ , Rachel
Kathy, Me, Carol, _

our sketches.

Sketching at Balboa Park

 Technical pen and watercolor.

The sketch group, Stephen, Graham, Francesca, Rachel, Carol, Linda. Seated: Lydia and Elaine. (Graham and Frncesca were here visiting from London!)

Crow stamps

A few years ago I met 2 strangers on the internet. One of them was Stephen Sloan who is an artist, book binder, street performer and an eraser carver. He has inspired me in so many ways. I finally tried my own stamp carvings when making a gift for a friend. This is a "test page" testing 4 stamps of crows I made during the last week. It's getting easier with the right tools and lots of practice. Oh, the other stranger I met was Rachel Kopel my art buddy, book maker and mail artist. Thanks guys!!

Balboa Park, California

I went to Balboa Park on my day off. I met a few friends to sketch at the Memorial Garden outside the San Diego Veterans Museum. This is a sketch and the video.

gifts

Yesterday I got a ticket from Rachel and a little book from Stephen. The book was part of his booklet a day project. It's an 8 page book folded from one sheet of paper. Cool beans.

Sketching at Spanish Village

I met with the weekday sketchcrawlers yahoo group today.



These are the sketches I did.





Rachel shared a great book on Peter Beard. You can view some of his journal pages here: http://www.peterbeard.com/work.php .

This is a short video of our afternoon.

Alcazar garden sketches

Sara, Dominique, Stephen and I met at Alcazar Garden in Balboa park to sketch and talk art.

This is a link to the video from this morning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axd5cZE6pBw

or watch now:

You Tube Video of the Marston House

This is the video I did while sketching at the Marston House in San Diego. The "audio swap" didn't work properly on You Tube so I just picked anything and hoped for the best.


You can also see it on you tube here.

niece's daughter's baby

I think my niece's daughter's baby boy would be my great great nephew. Well he certainly was. His name is Stephen.