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Tag Archives: Peets Coffee
Signs of Spring
Signs of spring were sprouting everywhere on my walk and I couldn’t resist stopping to sketch and paint. But I stopped so many times that before I’d gone half a mile I was so hungry I had to return home … Continue reading
Lion Door Guard and Cathy’s Bike Guy
Here is the lion that guards the door at the hotel beside the chubby cherubs on Harrison Street. I love his big nose and stylized fist. I sketched this from the photo on my monitor from across the room, to … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Ink and watercolor wash, Oakland, Pen and Ink, People, Photos, Places, Sketchbook Pages
Tagged Bicycle, Bike, Drawing, Ink and watercolor wash, Lion, Micron Pigma, Oakland, Peets Coffee, Sketchbook Pages
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Decorative Squash Doing Their Job
Most of their decorative squash buddies had grown unsightly fuzz and gone off to the compost bin. But these three were still pretty and when I looked around for something to sketch last week, they cried out “Choose Me! Choose … Continue reading
Posted in Life in general, Painting, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor
Tagged Decorative squash art, Peets Coffee, Sketchbook Pages, Still Life, Watercolor
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Berkeley Main Library and Peets Coffee Sketches
The Berkeley Public Library is a beautiful old building that was lovingly preserved and added on to a few years ago. We met there to sketch last Tuesday night, enjoying the ambiance and craftsman furnishings in the lobby of the … Continue reading
Posted in Berkeley, Faces, Ink and watercolor wash, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages
Tagged Drawing, Ink and watercolor wash, ink sketch, Peets Coffee, Sketchbook Pages
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Sketchcrawl at Shattuck Plaza Hotel
(Updated) We met at the newly remodeled Shattuck Plaza Hotel in Berkeley to sketch on Tuesday night. The lobby of the historic building has been transformed from an old-fashioned residential hotel with good”bones” to something entirely different. The walls are … Continue reading
No Stopping the Seasons…or the Arrows of Time
On my walk to Peets Coffee and the bookstore today I saw so many things along the way that I would have liked to sketch. But I was feeling tired and under-caffeinated so I made a mental note to take … Continue reading
Posted in Gouache, Ink and watercolor wash, Life in general, Painting, Pen and Ink, People, Sketchbook Pages
Tagged autumn, fall, Gouache, Ink and watercolor wash, Landscape, Peets Coffee, Sketchbook Pages, time
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No Power So Sketchercize & Play
It’s been a weird weekend. As the song says, “It never rains in California in the summer” except it did on Saturday morning after a night of thunder and lightening (also rare in the Bay Area). It was supposed to … Continue reading
Sketching at Peets Coffee Pinole
It was 86 degrees but quite comfortable in the shade of an umbrella, on the patio at Peets Coffee in Pinole, where I sipped my iced latte and sketched this view of the parking lot and hills behind it. I’d … Continue reading
Jana and Casey Do Berkeley
Casey Toussaint and her son Paul are visiting from France and I had the pleasure of spending Sunday with them. After a quick visit to my house and studio, we headed down to the Berkeley Marina to cool off on … Continue reading
A Cold Walk by Macaroni Grill, El Cerrito
On the last dayof vacation before returning to work, the world outside my windows looked raw, blustery and wet after a frost-covered morning. Hibernating sounded good, but I was feeling uninspired and blah and could tell if I stayed home … Continue reading
