July Selfie July 5 2017

july 4 selfie

July Selfie (July 3, 2017)

July Selfie (July 2, 2017)

Koh-i-Noor Rapido Sketch Pen in a Stillman & Birn Alpha.

I fell

San Diego Urban Sketchers Waterwise Botanicals Video

3:50 minute video of the San Diego Urban Sketchers at Waterwise Botanicals in Bonsall.

The artists, the sketches, and the nursery.

Waterwise Botanical Garden, Bonsall

 A nursery in San Diego was the location of the San Diego Urban Sketchers today. They had a lot of nice displays of the cactus and succulents. Luckily we had a break in the heat wave while we were there. This is my sketch done in my new Stillman & Birn Alpha Series.

Vendor in Watercolor

More watercolor practice. This is a vendor at the San Diego County Fair.

Vulture ACEOs in my Etsy Store

Vulture ACEO 

Art card with matching envelope.

Woodworker

Watercolor practice in my sketchbook.

This sketch was created from a photo I took at the San Diego County Fair in the Woodwork Exhibit Hall. 

Western Multiple Signature Book Arts

I have been working in my "textbook", Making Handmade Books by Alisa Golden for some time now. It is a great book that takes you from easy to more difficult structures with good diagrams and instructions. We also used it in a book arts class taught by Cindy Zimmerman, my most favorite class of all time. 

This little book is Western Multiple Signature with a Wrapped Hard Cover. I used lined pages ripped from an old journal for the inside pages and for the cover I used paste paper I made with a friend last year. 

The book is 4.25 x 3 inches.

Kate Sessions Park Watercolor Plein Air

Purchase on Etsy

Mixed Media Watercolor the Squeezer

New listing. Squeezer Stand at the San Diego County Fair.

Bid

Leo Carrillo Ranch, Carlsbad

This is my sketch done with the San Diego Urban Sketchers at Leo Carrillo Historical Park.
I used a Koh-i-nor sketch pen and watercolor. 

The other artists and their sketches can be seen on my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/OTJ39Dp0sfY

sketchbook page may 30 2017

Sketchbook page

Doodling instead of playing computer games.
Always practicing my painting.

New Listing: Laguna Beach Lifeguard Tower

Laguna Beach Lifeguard Tower

Original Watercolor

5 x 7 inches
Ebay Auction

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