Old Poway Park with Inland Painters

This morning the Inland Painters met at Old Poway Park on Midland, in Poway. The park staff was busy decorating for a big Christmas event on Saturday. There were many decorations and a lot more being put up which made for a wonderful subjects.

Painted on an 8 x 8 watercolor block.

Urban Sketching at Farmers Market at Old Poway Park

I went to Old Poway Park with the intent of sketching. Having music while I was Urban Sketching was a treat. I drew the musician with the saxophone first and was going to stop after drawing him but then I decided to fill my page. If I had done more planning I would have put them in their correct positions and scale. I use Winsor and Newton Watercolors with a Paper Mate Flair Pen. I did the drawing first, then filled with paint.

San Diego Steam Punk Picnic 2018

I created this watercolor while attending a San Diego Urban Sketching Event at Old Poway Park. We met during the San Diego Steampunk Picnic which gave us many costumed figures to sketch. It was a fun exercise even though it was hard to find one sitting still.  My sketches were done in an 11 x 14 inch Daler Rowney Sketchbook with pencil and watercolor.

View the 3:46-minute Lydeo of the event below.

Old Poway Park with Inland Painters

I worked with pen and ink but I will try oil next time. This is a 1:12-minute Lydeo of the artists and a bit of Old Poway Park from the Train Station.

San Diego Urban Sketchers Celebrate Our 3 Year Birthday

Sketching together for 3 years. A 3:30 minute Lydeo:

Shuang Li demo at San Diego Watercolor Society Paint Out and Demo

A demo by Shuang Li was a bonus while I attended a paint out hosted by the San Diego Watercolor Society at Old Poway Park. Watch a bit of the demo, take a peek at the train barn and check out the SDWS artist's paintings done on location in Poway.

My watercolor of Martin Watkinson

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.

Old Poway Park

Old Poway Park is an old park in San Diego with many old oak trees. Its very grassy and shady but they also have a section with an old train barn, and other old buildings. The building I sketched from the picnic area is the back of the ticket office where you can obtain a pass for the train that goes around the park.

Rendezvous in Poway, Old Poway Park

Today I got to meet with the San Diego Urban sketchers Meetup Group to wander around encampments from the late 1800's at Old Poway Park, in San Diego. We talked with Civil war soldiers, cowboys, and a medicine man.
These are my sketchers.

Urban Sketchers Meet at Old Poway Park



Poway Parks

Old Poway Park, Templar's Hall and Midland Railroad Ticket Office



View from Aubrey Park, Poway

Today was a great morning spent at Old Poway Park. While I was there I heard there was a softball tournament at Aubrey Park so I spent a little time watching and listening to girls playing softball while sketching the view from the fields.

Tooth Rock, Poway, CA

This was my sky this morning. You can see Tooth Rock up on the left.

Old Poway Park

Hattie (Harriot Orpehlia) has been around a long time. She usually wears a colorful outfit depending on what holiday it is. Yesterday she wore a red sweatshirt to keep her warm during the morning. The first part of the morning I concentrated on sketching her as she roamed around the other artists.

Later I drew some of the buildings but found there were more bushes than buildings.

Old Poway Park

Poway, California

Painting at Cynthia's, Poway, California, she has magnificent views all around.

Old Poway Park

Old Poway Park, Poway, California

Drawn on location pen and ink with watercolor.

Daily Painting 1

This is my first official Daily Painting done today. It is an oil of flowers at the Farmers Market at Old Poway Park, in California. I also listed it on eBay with a starting bid of $50.

Old Poway Park Windmill

It's always an invigorating experience painting and drawing on location but not today. It was early but already steaming hot so I sat in the shade under a huge tree. Suddenly I was in the sun, with ants biting my hands and feet, with a few flys buzzing around landing on my drawing every once in a while. We call those things the "elements". I was baring the elements, and here is my piece.

I am selling it on Ebay with a starting bid of $40.

Old Poway Park #4

This is a 4x3 inch watercolor on gray canson paper.

Old Poway Park in Poway, North County, San Diego, California
My son had a trillion friends over so I kept busy.
I did a 4x6 and a 22 x 22 piece also.