The Spanish Village Art Center is home to over 200 working artists and a beautiful place to sketch and paint. I tried this piece in a large (10 x 11 inch) watercolor sketchbook a fellow urban sketcher made for me. (Thank you Alicia Hallett!)

Most of the building was in shadow and it was a bit of a challenge for me to keep the other parts of the building and plants pure.

Spanish Village with the San Diego Sketch Crawlers

Once a month the San Diego Sketch Crawlers meet in Spanish Village to draw whatever strikes our interest. Today I noticed a little black chair so I decided to paint it and include everything around it. This is part of my effort to participate in #100daysofsketchbookentries and #the100dayproject. I use Holbein Watercolor and a Rapidosketch pen.

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Sketching with the San Diego Sketch Crawlers at Spanish Village.

Sharpie September using a Sharpie pen and watercolor paint.

Sketching at Spanish Village

It's been a while since I have sketched with the San Diego Sketch Crawlers and wanted to visit more than draw. I worked on several small sketches with my Rapido Sketch Pen and watercolor rather than concentrate on a full page drawing. I only stayed for a few hours but managed to sketch and take photos of the other artists.

This is a 1:07 minute video of the group and their sketches at Spanish Village in Balboa Park, San Diego. 

Page a Day - Spanish Village, Balboa Park

Poisson d'Avril with the San Diego Weekday Sketchers 2016

An exercise from a Marc Holmes, Craftsy lesson.

Pi Day at Spanish Village with Week Day Sketchers March 2016

Looking toward the San Diego Zoo from Spanish Village

Urban Sketching at Spanish Village Nov. 2015

Spanish Village

This watercolor of an area in Spanish Village was painted on gessoed paper. It was very frustrating because the paint just sits on top of the paper. I repeat the same mistakes by thinking I can be successful using this method. It doesn't work.

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.

Spanish Village, Balboa Park

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This sketch was done at Spanish Village in Balboa Park this morning. It was done in colored pencil. (The stamp was done in life drawing by my friend Stephen Sloan.)

Note: Balboa Park is the location of the 3rd Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketch Crawl which will take place August 7,8, and 9th 2015.

Spanish Village, Balboa Park

This sketch painting was created today at Spanish Village.  This is an area of Balboa Park, in San Diego where over 37 working art studios are located. The village has a colorful flagstone patio filled with seasonal blooms, and unique shops housed under the historic Spanish-tile roofed buildings. Balb oa Park is also the location of our 3rd Annual West Coast Urban Sketcher Sketch Crawl, August 7, 8, 9 2015! information at:  http://3rdwcuskskcrawl.blogspot.com/

Spanish Village, Balboa Park, San Diego

The weekday sketchers (aka the Rachel group) met at Spanish Village for some sketching. This is my sketch of the day.

 

 Built for the 1935-36 California-Pacific International Exposition, the Spanish Village Art Center now houses 35 working art studios in a charming setting that re-creates the feeling of a town square in Spain.

Spanish Village

My friend, Lyn Feudner at the Spanish Village art class sale.

Spanish Village, Balboa Park

Spanish Village is located in Balboa Park and consists of several little buildings which are shops and artist studios combined. This is my sketch of the Sculpture Guild, one of the studio shops. This was done while on a meet up with the San Diego Plein Air Meet Up Group.



Sketching at Spanish Village

I met with the weekday sketchcrawlers yahoo group today.



These are the sketches I did.





Rachel shared a great book on Peter Beard. You can view some of his journal pages here: http://www.peterbeard.com/work.php .

This is a short video of our afternoon.

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

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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.