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Happy New Year!
And a happy one it is for me, as I have been honored with Katherine Tyrrell’s, “Travels with a Sketchbook Shield” award for 2007! Holidays at Bar César,Berkeley (larger) It is indeed an honor to be...
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Cafe Sketching
Cafe Sketch, Berkeley (larger) As the weather gets colder I find myself sketching indoors a lot. Last weekend I took my sketchbook to the Espresso Roma Cafe on Hopkins Street in Berkeley and made this...
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Berkeley Cafe Sketching
Cappuccino (larger) At SketchCrawl #17 I met fellow sketchblogger Lee-Roy for the first time. He drove up from Los Angeles for the event and to spend a few days in the Bay Area. The day after the...
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Lunar Eclipse
On Wednesday there was a full lunar eclipse here in the Bay Area. I really wanted to draw it, but cloud cover obscured most of the event. We did catch the end though, at about 9:45pm from our front...
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At the Symphony
Berkeley Symphony #1 (larger) I recently attended the Berkeley Symphony and sketched the musicians during the performance. As I’ve done in the past when sketching in a theater, I did the ink work in...
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Evening Light
Shattuck Avenue (larger) The view from my car, parked on Shattuck Avenue, in North Berkeley at twilight.
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Berkeley Mini Crawl
North Berkeley, Shattuck Avenue (larger) In February Lisa and I did a mini-sketchcrawl around Berkeley and I never posted those sketches. Well, here they are! The first sketch is the view across...
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Restaurant Sketching
Sketching in restaurants can be a real challenge: people move around a lot, and food and dining companions expect some attention as well. I usually end up sketching quickly, and always add the...
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In the Neighborhood
North Berkeley House (larger) Backyard Rose (larger) A quick couple of sketches here. I made the first sketch while sitting in my parked car listening to Danny Gregory’s excellent podcast on sketching...
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SketchCrawl 19: Backyard
Alstroemeria (larger) Saturday was SketchCrawl 19 day. I couldn’t join the San Francisco group this time around, but did manage a quickie Crawl in my backyard before the sun set. It was unseasonably...
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