Solano Avenue on a very quiet Sunday

What's a visit to Berkeley without pizza at Zacharys?
I was on Solano Avenue this Sunday. Silly me, should have remembered that a LOT of places would be closed on Easter Sunday. So no Zachary's deep dish pizza for me. But a quick sketch of quiet Solano Avenue instead... I hope there's plans to preserve the Oaks Theater. Hate to see all the beautiful Art Deco signage disappear...

UC Berkeley sketches

Now that I have a niece that studies at UC Berkeley I'll be there sketching every so often. These two sketches are from the front porch of Cafe Strada, looking up towards the International House and off to the side towards the Architecture department.

Oh, and I lost a whole book of sketches while on campus ( a few weeks ago), so if you are ever on campus and spot a book, let me know!

Food Obsession

I have a food obsession for sure. At almost any given moment you could ask me what I felt like eating right then, and I could think of a LOT of things I would want to eat. Lately I've taken to drawing what I eat too. Here are a few recent food-related sketches.

A pear and almond tart and coffee at Filoli Gardens, Woodside.


A Reuben sandwich, Gunthers, San Jose


And condiments on the table.


More sketches on my blog or flickr stream.

Animals, animals, animals!

Our local zoo, Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, in San Jose brought some wild animals to the library. We just HAD to go! Here are a few of our furry ( and scaly and feathered) friends:




And, we went to San Diego Wild Animal Park over Presidents Day weekend. More sketches, made as we walked around the Park.
Strange striped beasts:


I love the flamingoes. If there is a sketching equivalent of 'photogenic' they are just that.


Lots more sketches on my blog or my flickr stream

Sketching at Stanford

About a year ago, I spent an afternoon at a South Bay Sketchcrawl at Stanford University. I wasn't very happy with the sketches I produced then and have been wanting to go back. I finally did on a sunny winter afternoon last week. Here are some sketches from that day.
Hoover tower and bicyclists:


And Stanford Memorial Church.


YOU can see more sketches on my blog or my flickr stream.