Pumpkin Outing: now a tradition!

It is officially a tradition! If you do it three years in a row - right? Here are pumpkin outings to this particular place from 2023 and 2024.

So it is now a tradition to go check out one of the cutest pumpkin patches of the Bay Area - Cosentino Family Farm in San Jose (especially if you are more into finding many different kinds of pumpkins, gourds, and squashes than rides and hay mazes (I had that period too, but taking a break from the mazes and jumpy-houses at the moment). 

Suhita Shirodkar is the one who introduced me to this wonderful orchard and farm stand (and she teaches classes there every season! So if you are in the Bay area, it is a really double-win!). We went on a lovely sunny morning and got to draw pumpkins (and I even had time to try my hand at pomegranates!)

Gouache and mixed media in a Hahnemühle watercolor book.

One Evening and One Pomegranate (Sketchbook Spread)

This was an evening of trying different approaches to drawing a pomegranate. At the end of the night, I used so many different materials on the last sketch that when sprayed my sketchbook with the casein fixative it started spreading in all directions. But that is fun too :) 

October 2013: Pomegranate

Click on the image to see it closer :)