More Houses

Slightly wonky drawing done in the eminent company of
Prashant Miranda and the East Bay Sketchers in Oakland CA's

Spanish Colonial neighborhood on
Otis Street pasat Versailles in Alameda, CA
Houses in Alameda, apparently, are what I keep drawing. I'm a slow artist, so the appeal may be that they don't move or walk away to do something more interesting than pose.

Delightful little Victorian at 966 Park with an
overarching old tree
Last time I opened my old edition (1984) of Virginia and Lee McAlester's A Field Guide to American Houses. the cover photo surprised me.  It is a Queen Ann Victorian like one I sketched!










Flag Day Sketch in colored pencil
1601 Lincoln Way, a wonderful Queen Ann Victorian
across the street from The Frank Bette Art Center

Notice the similarity between the house
on the cover of this book and my
painting to the left,
1601 Lincoln Way

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Life withTrees

Image
The Buddha achieved enlightenment while sitting under the Bodhi Tree, a fig tree (ficus religious). It offers shade, fruit and privacy as daughter trees grow up surrounding the original trunk and create little natural meditation cells among the trunks and branches. Reverence and care for the tree, or for special trees, is integral to spiritual practice around the world in every tradition.  Thus we preserve trees which give us so many benefits. An early art class outside my home was with a local artist. The medium was pastel and I clearly remember sitting outside on the grass, pastels beside me, and looking, looking so hard at a tree. I was nine years old. Recently I joined one of the monthly Nature Journal Club outings in Berkeley, CA organized by artist and naturalist   John Muir Laws. Birthday Tree, Park Street in Alameda, California. Sketched on Jan. 26, 2016. A group of about 35 people including at least half a dozen children and two women in wheelchai...
Read more

Sketching Animals

Image
Donna Burris Stroop sketching at Oakland Zoo Guy Vinson with inventive sketching gear August 2015 Artist Guy Vinson invited artist Donna Burris Stroop and I to sketch with him one day at  the Oakland Zoo.  It's expensive to park and to visit. It took Donna and I no time to decide that we wanted to return many times so we joined. Now all three of us are happy Oakland Zoo members who sketch there often.  Here are some of my sketches there in the past few months. Done in a Traveling Sketchbook - July 2015 Giraffes and Eland - done in a Traveling Sketchbook Several of these sketches were done in one of another of the 24 Traveling Sketchbooks making it from one artist to the next in the U.S. Since that means I no longer have them, I decided to get an Sennelier accordian-style sketchbook to fill with sketches from the zoo.  In case any of my artist friends want to know how to get one of those cool things -- click here .  Moleskine also h...
Read more

Pleased by People

Image
"Fruitvale Mona Lisa" I was sketching the background and this striking woman came and sat on the edge of the fountain pool.  She figured out that I was sketching her and didn't stay long.           Gandhi's birthday is October 2 every year.  Is it the beginning of the Season for Nonviolence? Lynnette Carr-Sykes  The portrait of Lynnette Carr Sykes for her memory card   was the high point of my 2015 portraits and the most beloved portrait I did this past year.  It was not the only one I did, however. Margo Rivera-Weiss done when East Bay Sketchers went to Jack London Square   Sally Bartholomew Man on Mobile Phone - Jack London Sqiare; from East Bay Sketchcrawl at Jack London Square Sandy Guderyon Boldly, I tried a group of people, a scarey prospect for me.  I only did two -- one from our Jack London Square Sketchcrawl and one at Oakland Zoo. Family Visiting the White-han...
Read more