July was Mostly About Family Time

July 2013: Family Time by apple-pine
Local travels, tea, cooking together, books, photos, sketching and many many games :)
July 2013: Family Time

July 2013: Family Time

July 2013: Bay Lands

July 2013: Petunia 
I know it's not August yet but I have more pages to scan and post before that - and they are all about all of the above :) 

July 2013: Visit to Villa Montalvo

July 2013: Villa Montalvo by apple-pine 
Sunny and a bit too hot for my liking. But shadow created amazing purples. Renovation. Some new expositions, some old. I am still not sure I have capacity to relate to the metal pegs is beautiful araucaria tree as an art form...

July 2013: Villa Montalvo July 2013: Villa Montalvo July 2013: Villa Montalvo
I enjoyed my travel chair while painting only to leave it at the center - and now it's gone :(

1st Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketchcrawl

1st Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketchcrawl I had a BLAST today - sketching with a whole bunch of people around San Francisco during 1st Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketchcrawl :)

I got sunburned (who would have thought - I had three jackets with me anticipating "normal" San Francisco weather :)

Some birds tried to mark my sketches.

Some smells from the farmer's market made me draw veggies instead of people and buildings.

Many sketchers looked at my sketchbook. 

At some point people in line to get lunch blocked my view and while I refused to give up and continued glancing through them, they kept asking if I am standing in line or "just drawing here" :) Upon receiving my answer some would stand a bit aside and some would just get closer to me, yet some would take out their camera and literally get between me and my sketch :) It was fun - zoo like fun! (and I love sketching in zoos :) 

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1st Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketchcrawl
1st Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketchcrawl 1st Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketchcrawl

Badger Log: 40 (2013)


When you eat ice-cream you forget about many things...

June 2013: Reading

June 2013: Reading by apple-pine
One of the great things about this gray-colored paper was that I started to write much more to add to my sketches. Anything - from the notes about the sketch to the notes about what I was reading - online or in a book.
June 2013: Reading and Writing

June 2013: Pens on my Table

June 2013: Day's Pauses

June 2013: Baylands

June 2013: Baylands by apple-pine
End of June: our hills have changed to the summer plush and pelicans are back!
June 2013: Baylands