Friday, April 18, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Art: Meegin and Tori.
Meegin (Conte pencil on newsprint. 12x12"). Drawing from live model.
Tori (Conte pencil on newsprint. 12x12"). Drawing from live model.
Tori (Conte pencil on newsprint. 12x12"). Drawing from live model.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Art: Jury Duty.
Jury Duty (pencil on paper, 5x8"). Quick sketches done while waiting in the San Diego Hall of Justice jury lounge. The top three figures are potential jurors. The bottom two drawings were done from ads in the San Diego Reader.
Art: Nikki Standing.
Nikki Standing (Conte pencil on newsprint, 4x11"). Five minute quick sketch from live model.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
A Sunday Morning In San Diego.
After stringing together too many homebody weekends, Juliana and I decided to kick-start our Sunday morning by waking up at 8am and heading straight for Mission Beach. After that, the options were open.
All pictures were taken on Sunday, February 10, from 9am to noon.
The Sunday morning weather was absolutely spectacular. The temperature was perfect and the skies clear.
We started at Mission Beach. We parked at the southern-most tip and walked along the beach to the rollercoaster and back.
(halfway along our walk)
(me looking introspective in front of the lifeguard tower I had drawn a few years earlier)
We wanted coffee. I have a few favorite coffee shops in the area, but they get crazy busy on Sunday mornings. So instead, we headed to the less crowded Living Room coffee shop in Point Loma. It was fifteen minutes away, but it was a beautiful day and would make for a good drive. We put the windows down, slid back the sun-roof, and headed over. We had tasty coffee and breakfast as we ate it on the coffee shop's outside porch. Afterwards we talked about where to head. Since we were so close to the Point Loma vantage point, we continued on to get a view of the city.
We took the picture from the grounds of the serene and solumn Rosecrans Cemetery.
We headed down to Sunset Cliffs -- my first time there. It's a popular and challenging local surf spot.
(jules down the trail)
(block dots are surfers)
(Sunset Cliffs park)
(showed some people to give scale to the cliff size)
(railing that leads down to the rocky ledge base)
(other view of the descending staircase)
(surfer launching into the water)
While in France, we had an amazing mussel dish. We've been able to figure out the recipe. Since we were close to the Point Loma Seafood Company, we decided to stop by and pick up some mussels for dinner.
I love San Diego.
All pictures were taken on Sunday, February 10, from 9am to noon.
The Sunday morning weather was absolutely spectacular. The temperature was perfect and the skies clear.
We started at Mission Beach. We parked at the southern-most tip and walked along the beach to the rollercoaster and back.
(halfway along our walk)
(me looking introspective in front of the lifeguard tower I had drawn a few years earlier)
We wanted coffee. I have a few favorite coffee shops in the area, but they get crazy busy on Sunday mornings. So instead, we headed to the less crowded Living Room coffee shop in Point Loma. It was fifteen minutes away, but it was a beautiful day and would make for a good drive. We put the windows down, slid back the sun-roof, and headed over. We had tasty coffee and breakfast as we ate it on the coffee shop's outside porch. Afterwards we talked about where to head. Since we were so close to the Point Loma vantage point, we continued on to get a view of the city.
We took the picture from the grounds of the serene and solumn Rosecrans Cemetery.
We headed down to Sunset Cliffs -- my first time there. It's a popular and challenging local surf spot.
(jules down the trail)
(block dots are surfers)
(Sunset Cliffs park)
(showed some people to give scale to the cliff size)
(railing that leads down to the rocky ledge base)
(other view of the descending staircase)
(surfer launching into the water)
While in France, we had an amazing mussel dish. We've been able to figure out the recipe. Since we were close to the Point Loma Seafood Company, we decided to stop by and pick up some mussels for dinner.
I love San Diego.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Wind Chime Cacophony Conclusion.
The neighbor with the horrific wind chimes finally took them down.
It's quite possible that the owner realized how chaotically noisy they were and showing some semblance of human decency, decided to remove them.
Or....
It's also possible that a certain someone hired a ninja to silently scale the wall to the three story balcony and cut down the offending chimes with a ninja sword. The ninja then wrapped the chimes in eight layers of fleece blankets but this barely quieted them -- only slightly dampening their outrageous noise. The ninja escorted the chimes north to an Oakland dock where he in turn paid the captain of an oil tanker to take the smothered chimes onto the ship. The captain steered the massive vessel out through the San Francisco Bay waters and into the open ocean. He encased the wind chime bundle with thick chains and heavy concrete blocks. He then threw the bundle over the side of the ship once it hovered above the Marianas Trench -- the deepest place on earth.
But there is still cause for concern. The satan-spawn chimes were replaced with a glass ball suspended by a red ribbon. While it's too far away to note details, it appears that the scene inside the sphere is seasonal in nature -- i.e. Christmas-like. I am concerned that once the cold weather passes, it will be replaced by another hanging structure. But what-o'-what will it be? A mobile of stray barking dogs suspended in harnesses? A wire cage filled with crazed roosters? Perhaps a series of loaded handguns with the strings wrapped around their triggers? A strong breeze could launch bullets randomly through the air.
Ah, the fun inherent in the urban scene. But for now, I can rest in relative windy silence.
It's quite possible that the owner realized how chaotically noisy they were and showing some semblance of human decency, decided to remove them.
Or....
It's also possible that a certain someone hired a ninja to silently scale the wall to the three story balcony and cut down the offending chimes with a ninja sword. The ninja then wrapped the chimes in eight layers of fleece blankets but this barely quieted them -- only slightly dampening their outrageous noise. The ninja escorted the chimes north to an Oakland dock where he in turn paid the captain of an oil tanker to take the smothered chimes onto the ship. The captain steered the massive vessel out through the San Francisco Bay waters and into the open ocean. He encased the wind chime bundle with thick chains and heavy concrete blocks. He then threw the bundle over the side of the ship once it hovered above the Marianas Trench -- the deepest place on earth.
But there is still cause for concern. The satan-spawn chimes were replaced with a glass ball suspended by a red ribbon. While it's too far away to note details, it appears that the scene inside the sphere is seasonal in nature -- i.e. Christmas-like. I am concerned that once the cold weather passes, it will be replaced by another hanging structure. But what-o'-what will it be? A mobile of stray barking dogs suspended in harnesses? A wire cage filled with crazed roosters? Perhaps a series of loaded handguns with the strings wrapped around their triggers? A strong breeze could launch bullets randomly through the air.
Ah, the fun inherent in the urban scene. But for now, I can rest in relative windy silence.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Art: Place du Conseil.
Place du Conseil, Villefranche-sur-mer, France (Pen, ink, and watercolor on watercolor paper, 6x9").
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