Oakland Municipal Rose Garden

I joined another group of sketchers on June 2 whom I found on meetup.com. I had never been to the Oakland Municipal Garden - and I am a longtime Oaktown resident! It took me about an hour just to find it and another hour to find a parking place. Unfortunately I only met one other sketcher from the group. Tired of walking and looking I found a bench in the shade and sketched this little scene. That's probably more than you needed to know...right?

On Saturday, April 24, I attended the 35th Sketchcrawl in San Francisco. Sketchcrawls are drawing marathons in which participants basically spend the day sketching in differerent locations. I had planned to sketch with my Tuesday Evening Sketch Buddies BUT... due to circumstances beyond my control I didn't meet with them. So I went on my own, starting at the MacArthur BART station. I walked down the Embaradero to the North Beach area and then eventually to Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39. Then I walked back to the BART station. It was great exercise -- goodness knows I need it. But I didn't need it all at once...I could barely move my legs the next day. LOL

I spent a good deal of time at Washington Park in the City. This sketch developed very slowly. How slowly? Well at least six different people sat on this bench as I drew the tree. :0

I tried a quick sketch of one of the city's landmarks, coit tower.

I ended my visit to Washington Park with this sketch.

Sketchcrawl 35

Pier 39 -- YAY! I even got to see the lounging sea lions. I've got to work more on painting water but I hope you get the point.