Halloween 2024 - day after.

On the day after Halloween I went to see the Boo Crew House in San Jose  - all completed after the first night of performance. I knew that it would be different from the "work in progress" version I sketched last week but I was not prepared to see so many layers of attention and details added over just one week. It went from a really cool antique store/workshop site to a high-level theater set! 



I had the pleasure to sketch alongside @suhitasketch and @umapaints and met quite a few people from the Boo Crew itself - people who made it all happen brought their families during the daylight to show and tell about their involvement in different aspects of the production. It was just a mind-blowing level of imagination, craftsmanship, enthusiasm, and attention to detail on a huge show that lasted only a couple of days a year! 

And here is a link to a little video about this visit.

Visit their page (@boo.crew.on.church.drive ) and learn more about this volunteer-driven community project that is so inspiring!


On My Table: Beginning of November 2024.

I had a really amazing October with lots of drawings and a wonderful trip to the East Coast. 

This mess on my table is very much the true state of things as I am still unpacking from the trip but already drawing persimmons and working on a bunch of new cards to send to people while drawing lots of everyday things.



Travel Sketching: Catching Some Fall Feelings!

I've re-arranged my sketches from this trip several times - thinking about how to share them, and I think this batch is a series of sketches that will tell you one thing only: I love color, and these all are mad attempts to show you how happy it made me to be in the middle of so much of it on this trip!

These sketches are direct gouache with some underpainting done with a large acrylic marker, texture added with the distress crayons, and some lines added in pen or pencil. Details on the tools that I took with me are in a separate post - see below. 




This is a series of posts about Fall 2024 trip to East Coast.
4. Catching Some Color / Fall feelings
5. More to come!