Gestures

I'm just trying to save some blog-face here; posts two days in a row!
Gesture drawing on tuesday was not good...here are the only decent ones.

Sketchcrawl...

Well, it's taken a while, and you'll have to excuse the lame colours, but here are my doodles from sketchcrawl.

The event, for those of you who aren't familiar, is a day long drawing excursion of people going out sketching, and sort of roaming around. This was the 11th official crawl, and it happens all across the globe. Here's a link to the San Francisco chapter of the Sketchrawl forum.

We took a boat from the Ferry building on the Embarcadero up to Sausalito:


On the ferry, I ran into Amelia from the GeckoCafe blog, which was very exciting, and of course Ronnie and Enrico and a bunch of the other Pixarians who were out drawing that day.

And here we are. It was a very hot day, and I hadn't had anything to eat in the morning, so I bought a chevre and sundried tomato sandwich. It turned out to be small and open faced, took forever to make, and came with a pile of shredded carrots.



I was hanging out with Alex Woo and all of his friends, but not much drawing happened for me. There were mostly boats and boats and boats, and not many people around, although it was pretty mesmerizing to watch the fog roll over the hills--I can't imagine ever getting sick of that.

and here we are at our final destination of the day--everybody chillin' around a gazebo, drawing each other drawing the boats and the hills and the water. A couple of dogs were swimming, which was pretty fun, and at the end of the day, I finally met a one Ric Carrasquillo, who doesn't really look as scuzzy as his avatar might suggest, and who, it turns out, is a pretty cool fella.

And that was sketchcrawl!

*by the by, the fellow standing looked fun, although I can't draw him.

No Posts Today.

Sorry--No posting lately; another late night at the studio...

Walnut Creek / Urinetown / Petaluma

I'll have to come back later to write more, but i visited Walnut Creek last weekend to see a production of Urinetown. Lucky me, it happened to be the day of the annual Walnut Parade. YAY!





I'll have to come back later, I've got a tonne of drawing to do.

Dwell on Design

If anyone's interested, the DWELL ON DESIGN conference is happening right now in SF.

There's house tours and lectures and whatnot--cocktail parties, I guess--lots of stuff on pre-fab and green architecture, I think. Attendees from the Buckminster Fuller Institue, the MIT school of Architecture, many many independent firms, and, of course, the AIA--American Institute of Arcitects. Worth checking out, I'd say.

Click here for more info.

14: numbers?

A scrouchy old lady on my commute. Steadler on Chromacolour.
Ted Mathot was making fun of my number-titles the other day, and I had to admit that there really wasn't any reasoning behind them. I thought that maybe they'd keep things together... or something--that they'd separate these posts as an independent set. Anyway, I'm just trying to keep this blog going; I'm not on the computer much these days, and there seems to be a helluva lot of exciting stuff going on every day! Who wants to be stuck to a keyboard?

This place is great for getting you going, and I've been trying to keep myself busy between still setting up my place, reading (Alexander Mckendrick's ON FILM-MAKING), drawing (on the BART train) and the occasional morning swim.

I went to an AWESOME Giants game the other day, saw some amazing screenings and presentations, attended some life drawing classes, enjoyed a picnic on a mountain top at the Lick Observatory, peformed as an extra in a film shoot, attended the Super 7 opening, watched flocks of feral parrots circle Coit tower, ate baby sized burritos at El Farolito and canoed the lagoon in Alemeda, all thanks to the generous generous people in this building.

I can't say enough about them, but this probably isn't the place to name names. Suffice it to say that every day is awesome. A treat and a privilege. I'll try to post more (and I guess I'll cut the numbers...)

13: Pixar U

Pixar is smart and generous enough to provide all sorts of art classes for its employees to enjoy (and learn from). Here are some drawings from my first Life Drawing session in... a long time. It felt good though--like being back in college. Afterwards I was shown a bunch of Tom Gately gestures, and took a look at the blog of Rob Thompson--quickly reminding me of how far I still have to go. Everybody here is awesome!

12: !

I found a place in the Mission District!
Yeah, it's a pretty cool place, pre 1906.

The units are all clean and renovated, and the couple who owns the place live here too. They run an educational farm called Pie Ranch (because it's shaped like a piece of pie), which aims to transform inner city kids' relationship to their food, working with the community to build "healthier local food systems".

The storefront is going to be the new home of the artist run contemporary arts organisation Southern Exposure, and in a few years the intention is to open a small cafe adjacent--the Pie Shop, I believe it's tentatively called. There's an event on Saturday at 10am if anyone's interested in attending; it's about the future of the Pie Shop and its place in the community, and, yes, there will be pie to be had--

See you there!

11: Apartment Hunting

10: Thanks

Thanks everyone; things here are swell!
The first day of school was good.
Incredible people, incredible artwork.

I'm still trying to get my head straight--
it's all pretty overwhelming;
it's like I'm living in a DVD special feature.