Sketching at Spanish Village in Balboa Park

This sketch was done on an Ampersand Clay Board.

This is a watercolor on a light weight Bristol Board with watercolor.

A 2 minute Lydeo showing the other artists work and parts of Spanish Village.

Dinner at BJ's

Have a nice day if you want to.

My friend Jim says this...

Weather report

Moleskine Cahier Journal, Sketchbook Flip May/June 2015

Life drawing

life drawing in Ramona, #figure drawing, brush pen, china marker and stabilo

San Clemente Pier

I got to meet with my oldest best friend, her daughter, and grandson in San Clemente today. A fun day with an 8 month old baby boy.

stay in reality collage

Oceanside Village, Oceanside Harbor

 I sat at the harbor early this morning sketching the village. The only thing moving this was a fishing boat taking off from the dock.

Zoro Garden, Balboa Park, August 2015

A "Lydeo" of our outing at the Zoro Garden.

Zoro Garden, Balboa Park, San Diego

The Zoro Garden is a sunken stone grotto garden that was designed as a nudist colony during the 1935 California-Pacific Exposition it is now a butterfly garden. I was there sketching with friends this morning.

Changing sheets ALONE

Jurogin

Laguna Beach Festival of Arts DAY TRIP August 2015

a 2:51 minute video of the day trip with Ella

Hamburger Factory Condiments

Trying my new brush pencil i ordered from Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Watercolor of condiments on gessoed sketch paper.

Old Poway Park, Poway, CA

Old Poway in front of Porter House and the park office. Watercolor on gessoed sketch paper.

Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego

Day 4 of watercolor practice. This was done from a photo taken while on a meetup with the San Diego Urban Sketchers Meetup group. Watercolor on sketch paper.

Patio View

It's going to be a hot day today. I am staying home and did my daily sketch early.

View from my kitchen patio.

webb park rancho bernardo

Meet and Greet 3rd Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketch Crawl, Augus...

Mission Beach, San Diego

A weekend sketch with the San Diego Urban Sketchers at Mission Beach. This is the street corner taco shop.

Filled and Empty Sketchbooks

Filled Sketchbooks - 1974 thru 2015.

My VERY FIRST sketchbook was destroyed in 1974 in a private ceremony attended by me and the dumpster.... It was an effort to forget that year. silly times.

Sketchbooks waiting in line.

practicing with new colors

ideas

picnic sketches

life drawing at Janice's

lab test waiting room

San Diego History Center

This is the building that houses the San Diego History Museum, the Railroad Museum and Photography Museum. I met with 3 sketch buddies today to sketch in this area of Balboa Park. I started on a 4 x 6 inch Arches watercolor board with pen and ink then painted it with watercolor.

This huge book in the history museum is the Guest Register from the 1915 Exposition. A beautiful book that was almost destroyed for scrap paper. 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

African Lion and 4 Artists at San Diego Zoo, June 2015

back-to-back Accordion Book

from Alisa Golden's, "Making Handmade Books".

favorite quote

drawings from the zoo June 12

Lesser Kudus and 2 artists - San Diego Zoo June 2015

a 1 minute video

Elephants and Artists San Diego Zoo June 2015

A 2:50 minute video

Artists Sketching Flamingos at the San Diego Zoo June 2015

a 1:48 minute video of artists sketching the flamingos at the San Diego Zoo

Orangutan Baby San Diego Zoo June 2015

a 49 second video of the baby orangutan at the San Diego Zoo with a few sketches at the end

peacock displaying his feathers June 2015

a 34 second video of a peacock displaying its feathers

Sungazer at the San Diego Zoo - June 2015

Sketching Lofty Coffee from Lofty Coffee Encinitas Roasting Works.

Using a rapidograph and watercolor in a Moleskine Sketchbook.

Spanish Village, Balboa Park

Button Hole Stitch

Ella and I completed our books today! Original Instruction Credit to: Helen Shafer Garcia and Kieth A. Smith, Volume 1 Non-Adhesive Binding, Books without Paste or Glue. Mine is the hummingbird book on the left and Ella Whitehead's Steampunk book is on the right.

Tea Bag Book

Teabag Book from Alisa Golden's Making Handmade books. The teabag paper is made of newsprint splattered with leftover oil paints. The tag is card stock spray painted with gold and black.

The book is 3 x 4 inches