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Halloween Decorations

October is the season for people to pull their skeletons out in the open and display them in all the ways that can entertain, scare, educate, and pleasure their neighbors and passers by :) It is a season to draw pumpkins, doing all sorts of things too! And it is always a season to sit with a friend on a street and draw. This was an intersection of all of these: Halloween Decorations in San Jose, California :)

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.

Sketchbook #101: Halloween Memorabilia

OK - I am off by 60 pages form sketchbook 101 and I am 2/3 done with the sketchbook 102 now - it's a big lag in posting but there is only one way to sort this out: post more!

Here you can see our pumpkin and costumes and some of the best costumes I saw while trick-or-treating :)