stay in reality collage

Oceanside Village, Oceanside Harbor

 I sat at the harbor early this morning sketching the village. The only thing moving this was a fishing boat taking off from the dock.

Zoro Garden, Balboa Park, August 2015

A "Lydeo" of our outing at the Zoro Garden.

Zoro Garden, Balboa Park, San Diego

The Zoro Garden is a sunken stone grotto garden that was designed as a nudist colony during the 1935 California-Pacific Exposition it is now a butterfly garden. I was there sketching with friends this morning.

Changing sheets ALONE

Jurogin

Laguna Beach Festival of Arts DAY TRIP August 2015

a 2:51 minute video of the day trip with Ella

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.

Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego

Day 4 of watercolor practice. This was done from a photo taken while on a meetup with the San Diego Urban Sketchers Meetup group. Watercolor on sketch paper.

Patio View

It's going to be a hot day today. I am staying home and did my daily sketch early.

View from my kitchen patio.

webb park rancho bernardo

Meet and Greet 3rd Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketch Crawl, Augus...

Mission Beach, San Diego

A weekend sketch with the San Diego Urban Sketchers at Mission Beach. This is the street corner taco shop.

Filled and Empty Sketchbooks

Filled Sketchbooks - 1974 thru 2015.

My VERY FIRST sketchbook was destroyed in 1974 in a private ceremony attended by me and the dumpster.... It was an effort to forget that year. silly times.

Sketchbooks waiting in line.

practicing with new colors

ideas

picnic sketches

life drawing at Janice's

lab test waiting room