Centro Cultural de la Raza

I met with 3 other sketchers at Balboa Park today. These are my sketches and the youtube video. After looking at the video I realized 3 of us had made our own sketchbooks! It's always fun to sketch with friends...



My sketches of buildings in the distance.
Marker with watercolor on the left. Sharpie with watercolor on the right.


People in the area.

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:

Elfin Forest, San Diego, California

Joan, Susan, Dawn and me went sketching and painting at Elfin Forest today.



Hattie came along for the ride. It was 109° today!




My watercolor sketches in a moleskine cahier and the youtube video:

Painting at Balboa Park in San Diego!

My finished watercolors:

Balboa park, san diego, CA

this is a rough sketch of trees in balboa park. I remember when I did this. I was done for the day but sometimes my pen kept moving. Drawing is such a habit.

Friday Plein air meet up in San Diego

Spanish Village in Balboa Park, San Diego was the meet up location organized by Rachel Kopel today. Stephen and Sally also attended. Drawing, talking about mail art, book binding and ending the morning with a walk through the Chinese brush painting exhibit made it a good morning.

 This is my sketch of some of the studios in spanish village.

 

Rachel, Stephen and Sally.

Stephen and Rachel were using books they bound themselves.

Sally

Wild Animal Park, San Diego California

Tuesday I had the pleasure of meeting with my drawing buddies, Susan and Joan. We went to the Wild Animal Park located in Escondido (North County San Diego). I spent most of my time sketching the gorillas.  This is a spread in my Moleskine Cahier - gorillas drawn in marker.

Balboa Park

This is a sketch done at Balboa Park from the Sculpture Court Cafe while waiting for the San Diego Museum of Art to open.

One of the photographers in the Stieglitz group exhibit was Gertrude Kasebier. She used a lot a white and manipulated her images to give them a painterly quality. Motherhood and family was the theme in a lot of her work.

Daily Painting 070908

This was done at the San Diego Watercolor Society Paint out today at Spanish Village in Balboa Park.

Here are the other artist's work.

Daily Painting 5 - Balboa Park

This oil painting was painted on location in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. If you are interested in more details please visit my online gallery.

Landscape Painting at Balboa Park San Diego

The morning meeting with instructor, Annette Paquet.

















Deciding what to paint with thumbnails.

The painting is started but not complete.
18x24

An artist at the critique.