SketchCrawl 14: San Francisco
On Saturday I joined the San Francisco SketchCrawl group for SketchCrawl 14. I hooked up with fellow art blogger Jana Bouc and we spent the day wandering and sketching. It was great to finally meet her!
The San Francisco group had about 80 people this time; quite a crowd. This SketchCrawl was especially Crawl-y; we walked over four miles. The general route (for us at least) was: Ferry Building, Filbert Steps, Coit Tower, North Beach, Ferry Building. The weather was just about perfect. What a great day!
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January 16th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Wow, your work is absolutely stunning. I’ve been to San Fran. with my family, and it was really something to look at your sketches, and remember the same scenes. It certainly brought back memories!
Keep going!
June 7th, 2007 at 8:10 am
As always, your sketchcrawl paintings are just great- what a fresh, lively day! You always catch just the right amount of detail without being fussy, and your color choices are really cool. Nice nice nice!
June 1st, 2007 at 7:43 am
Many beautiful sketches! We are planning a trip to SF for next year as an 18th birthday gift for our oldest son. He has wanted to visit SF for years, and wants to live there some day. So, we are planning where to go and where to stay and allt he fun things to do there. What a beautiful prelude! Thanks for sharing these amazing works of art.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:48 am
Beautiful sketches, Martha! I think the Chinatown one is my favourite.
May 29th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
these are well nice, as usual! i love the tones and the simplicity of it, exceptional. i did a sketchcrawl that day as well, in london, but am yet to post anything about it, as i have jet lag
May 27th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Wow, you’ve got some great sketches from this crawl. I love the light and easy touch of them.
May 27th, 2007 at 6:10 am
WOW! Eighty people! Four miles!! I’m very impressed with the SF crowd! Did you take any group photos? I’d love to see them. Our San Diego group is pawltry in comparison…
Especially love your chinatown sketch! just lovely. and I admire your people sketch very much, since none of my drawings are populated.
Fun to meet Jana too! Hope to meet you soon, in San Diego!
May 24th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Lovely, all. You have a mature intuition (does intuition mature?) on what to put in and what to leave out, what Jana calls “vignette” (as in a verb–our language still evolves!). And you are certainly mastering pen tech. There should be an American Watercolor Sketchers Association (“AWSA”); and then, you would be one of the first signature members!
May 24th, 2007 at 4:53 am
WOW – I love everyone of these!!
May 23rd, 2007 at 4:09 pm
These are just wonderful…they kept gettting better and better as you scroll down the screen….I am in awe
May 23rd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Gosh, wow and gosh! Brilliant work.
May 23rd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
That Chinatown corner sketch is gorgeous. Makes me wish I had had the courage to sketch when I visited SF a few years ago.
How exciting that you got to meet Jana!
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:38 pm
great sketches! lovely color as usual… i esp. like the cathedral one…
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:52 am
Beautiful sketches Martha…all of them. They have your remarkably delicate touch, great eye for detail and wonderful perspective and depth.
Ronell
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:59 pm
They’re all terrific and I am especially fond of the Chinatown one – wonderful composition.
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I love the cathedral and you captured Chinatown’s exotic essence with a few well chosen images and color.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Oh how I wish I’d been there! I am most impressed by your Chinatown sketch – so much detail and I can’t even imagine where you were sitting to be able to do this.
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Thank you everyone! I am working on a post about my methods and materials that will hopefully answer your questions. Stay tuned…
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:36 am
…very nice watercolour sketches!!
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:43 am
Your sketches from your latest crawl are great. Love your style.
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:26 am
These sketches are magnificent – and so much fun to see them in another iteration on Jana’s blog!
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:33 am
How completely delightful! I’m so glad you and Jana met and sketched together! It makes me want to move to SF so I can sketch with you two! (or at least visit there ;D.) I really admire your delicate, line-and-wash technique.
May 21st, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I finally got mine posted too! Yours look wonderful! It was such a good day. I hadn’t seen your sketches of Coit Tower and the sketchers there. Those are terrific! I’m so envious of your Chinatown street scene. That was just amazing how much you captured of the whole scene and the cathedral while I just got little snippets of them. I really like the way you vignette the scenes using the outline of the trees beside the cathedral, for example, and just painting in some of the bottom of the porch–very effective for drawing the eye to what’s important and makes for a variety of enjoyable shapes to see.
It was a great day! By the way, I’m interested in investigating the pen and ink you used for these. Could you tell me the name and where to find them again?
May 21st, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Nothing better than a productive and perfect day. Glad it happened for you.
Love the sketches! They are all interesting and well-done.
May 21st, 2007 at 6:12 pm
hi Martha! your sketches all seemed so flawless. how do you do that? how long does it take you to do each one on average? i really like the bay view one of the sail boats (SC#2) and the one of the Pterodactyl (#13) against the purple.
May 21st, 2007 at 5:17 pm
WONDERFUL SKETCHES!And so terrific that you met Jana ..!!!
May 21st, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Great sketches. I really like them all. Always nice to see your work. Greetings.