An opportunity for Showing Your Work: Los Altos

Los Altos History Museum will be hosting a "Paint the Town - Echoes of our Past" exhibit this summer. Artists interested in participating are encouraged to visit:
https://losaltoshistory.org/exhibits/paint-the-town/
and submit applications (I visited the museum today and they are still accepting applications).

Museum organized a list of buildings they want to see painted in the following groups:

• Pre World War I sites (1890-1910) 
• World War I era buildings/sites (1910-1930) 
• World War II era (1930-1950) 
• Population boom years (1950 – 1970) 
•  Silicon Valley (1970 – 1990)

and they are accepting all sorts of sketches, paintings etc.
Here is a link to the map they created to see all locations:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=37.41229866571479%2C-122.15461599999998&z=12&mid=1LLkc0je0OyrN_YwmE8LUlctYAhDD9yRA

(I am going to take a leaf form their book and make a map for my "100 Views of Silicon Valley" series - which I started a few weeks ago - without knowledge about this opportunity :) I am at about 40 mini gouache paintings at the moment - and below you can see the Google "quartet".

Re-Post from my Blog: My Urban Sketcher's Workshop "Creating Collections of Everyday Moments" on April 22.

I had a great time teaching an Urban Sketcher's workshop "Creating Collections of Everyday Moments" on April 22. The Los Altos location worked out great as we were able to have some comfortable sitting spaces in the center of a busy street but not trampled over by many people walking by.


I shared my sketchbooks while working through my talking points and then gave out some samples of paper and stickers I use and showed a bunch of my own tiny sketch kits which we used in the workshop extensively.

I was too busy teaching and did not take any photos of the process but these are some of the sketchkits and my current sketchbook as well as handout I gave to all the participants.


The group was working hard and asked a lot of interesting questions. I learned a lot from them while we worked through three different exercises.

I am looking into putting together a workshop around using liquid inks / liquid watercolors and another one on gouache painting in the field. Let me know if you are interested in any of those!

Satura Cakes in Los Altos

Satura Cakes
Originally uploaded by apple-pine

I was on a mission - to find a bakery with cakes good enough for a seasoned connoisseur. After about 6 attempts this one was a good match - we ordered some birthday cakes there and I even had a chance to taste some of them after my sketch was finished ;)