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Laguna Beach Lifeguard Tower

Original Watercolor

5 x 7 inches
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Plein Air Convention and Expo PACE17 at Balboa Park, San Diego

A Lydeo of a few hundred artists painting at Balboa Park.

Liberty Station

 Still hyper from the Plein Air Convention and Expo (#PACE17) I did a sketch after entering some pieces in the San Diego Watercolor Society monthly show. The Walk for Mental Health was just wrapping up so I got to sketch. I practiced some of the many things I tried to remember from the convention.

LA TRAVIATA

Sketching at the opera last night during the dress rehearsal of LA TRAVIATA. What a great opportunity!

Stamping and painting

One of the things I like when I "clean" my studio is I find things that I didn't know I had or that I haven't used in a long time. Sometimes I walk into my studio and I am inspired right away and I don't clean it at all. Today I spent a lot of time sorting through papers and combining them into 2 flat boxes. When I was done I came across a large bird I had photographed at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. I wasn't sure why I saved a large 8.5 x 11 print of the bird but it looked perfect for a stamp project. I sat down and carved out a small stamp using a scrap of Speedy-carve I found.

If I were to do it again I would have picked a better piece of carving material. I don't plan things out too well, I just jump in and DO IT. This bird barely fit on the stamp material. At first I used a stamp pad to ink the stamp and later used printing ink and a brayer. The paper is quite absorbent so the image came out better using more ink with the brayer.

La Mesa Stroll, April 11, 2017

Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden, Balboa Park

A 2:12 minute Lydeo of me and my friends at the Rose Garden this morning. A LOT of roses!

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.

Chicken practice

No really chicken practice it's watercolor practice.

Huntington Manor

My piece done at the Huntington Manor. I would like to simplify more. This mall piece is 5 x 7. Next I am going to practice going larger and having bolder shapes.

A 2 minute Lydeo of the San Diego Watercolor Society Paint out at Huntington Manor in Poway

Fisherman's Landing, Point Loma

The San Diego Urban Sketchers had a visitor from Oxford, England! This is a 3:30 minute video of the artists, our sketches and the area in Point Loma called Fisherman's Landing.

Watercolor and a quote

Work on your work, thereby improve.

Learn to work and learn from your work.

Commit yourself to the work of your heart.

Santa Fe Depot, San Diego

Hair problems

Paper mache Bowl

I have been working on this bowl off and on for the last 20 years, now it is DONE!

#oneweek100people2017 continued..

More #oneweek100people2017 and sketching at the opera. No. 45 to 70.

#oneweek100people2017

22-19 musicians from the internet and posemaniacs

30-42 Internet people and TV People

#oneweek100people (1 thru 21)

Farm Stand West with San Diego Urban Sketchers

This 3:46 minute video shows the San Diego Urban Sketchers at Farm Stand West. We sketched for 2 hours.

Farm Stand West

Sketching the tractor at Farm Stand West in Escondido.

Lily Pond, Balboa Park, San Diego

Sketching at the Lily Pond at Balboa Park, San Diego. Saying good bye to friend before she leaves for Japan on deployment. I painted gesso over my bullet journal calendar for last month and painted in watercolor.

Just give me the correct change.

Sketching at the Opera

A few weeks ago I was invited to sketch at the opera. This was not a San Diego Urban Sketcher Event but many of us were in attendance, invited by friends or other groups. We decided to submit a group post to UrbanSketcher.org with the opportunity to share our sketches. Here is the result posted on UrbanSketcher.org
http://www.urbansketchers.org/2017/02/a-collective-view-of-verdis-comic-opera.html#

Origami Wallets

Origami Wallets made from instructions found in Making Handmade books by Alisa Golden.

Time Management - Laura Vanderkam

Desert Garden, Balboa Park with San Diego Urban Sketchers Jan. 2017

Grape Day Park

San Diego Watercolor Society at Torrey Pines Gliderport 2016

Shrinking

Kit Carson Park Urban Sketching

Watercolor sketching for a few hours at Kit Carson Park.

Eating Bad

The Persimmon Incident

Sketching at Bernardo Winery

5 x 8 inch watercolor sketch facing V's Coffee Shoppe at the Bernardo Winery. 

Tuna Harbor Park - San Diego Urban Sketchers 2016

The Lydeo and my sketch of the statue at Tuna Harbor Park

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Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, Balboa Park - Urban Sketching 2016

This is our video of the San Diego Urban Sketcher and San Diego Sketchcrawler event at the Old Globe in Balboa Park and my sketch.

I drew some of the architecture visible from the center and the Grinch peeking over the ticket office.

Dixon Lake, Escondido, California

A 32 second Lydeo of Lake Dixon where I painted this morning.

Orange County Museum of Art with North County Society of Fine Arts 2016

A few of my favorites at the Orange County Museum of Art

Houser Wirth & Schimmel Bus Trip with North County Society of Fine Arts ...

A 1:51 minute video from a recent trip to Los Angeles with a visit to Houser Wirth & Schimmel Gallery

Black Cow 3 x 3 Inch Oil Painting

New Listing in my Etsy Store, LydiaVelardeArt

Met filmmaker Anjalika Sharma at Balboa Park today!

Today I met filmmaker Anjalika Sharma at Balboa Park. We might collaborate on a project. She is a very inspiring woman, I'm glad she reached out to me when she saw me sketching  with the Urban sketchers a few weeks ago. This is a link to our first Facebook Live video we tried together. Lots of fun!
https://www.facebook.com/lydia.velarde/videos/10210841408611641/

I also drew a lady while I was waiting for Anjalika.

Sketching at Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in La Jolla

This sketch was done on the back side of the watercolor paper. No matter how hard I tried to put in my darks they were soaked up by the paper. It was a fun morning anyway, I met with the San Diego Urban Sketchers. A 3:38 minute video of the morning is shown below.

This video shows the San Diego Urban Sketchers, their sketches, and views from the Monument.

Sketching the Southern Ground Hornbill at the San Diego Zoo 2016

Avenida De La Playa with the San Diego Watercolor Society

finished piece

SDWS Wednesday Morning Painters at Avenida De La Playa, La Jolla 2016

New listings on Etsy (Pirate and Garden)

Pirate Watercolor

Zoro Garden, Balboa Park 

Reddi-wip

Couldn't Sleep

Old Poway Park, Street Signs

Watercolor with ink pen and ink brush

67 VW Bus

watercolor