12/28/2023 0 Comments Ipad sketching live performer dancing![]() So i drew some people instead with pencil. Maybe it would have worked better not on the fairly thick Moleskine paper, because you can barely read it. The page is a bit dirty because as you can see from the sketches below, I decided to use coloured pencil to do some brass rubbing (well, masonry really), I saw the word ‘Castro’ on a stone plaque on the street and thought ‘that would look good in my sketchbook’, having seen someone else do that a couple of days before. The first, two big old houses where I just drew the outline and the alley, and ended up juts not bothering with the rest. When I spent a year in Belgium, some Saturdays I would go wandering in Brussels and would get on the streetcars there until the end of the line, and just read my book while the streets of Ixelles, Etterbeek, Laeken passed by outside.īelow are a couple more sketches I attempted on the Castro before climbing big hills. The one I was on was a classic San Francisco original from the 1950s, but many others come from Milan, Philadelphia, Zurich, Kansas City, Melbourne, even Japan. These old streetcars are well known – they aren’t the famous San Francisco cable cars, but these historic vehicles originate form all over the world and have found a new home here in the city. I haven’t spent a lot of time on any public transport for quite a while, save for the Amtrak occasionally, so i was glad that it wasn’t too busy and that they have a number of single seats still. This is a fun way to draw while on public transport. I did the same on the other half of the page when I got on the F, and as it dried I added some lines in while we trundled uphill towards the Castro. I splashed a bit of watercolour on there for effect. ![]() I had some Turkish Delight that I had bought at the Ferry building though, and that gave me some energy when climbing up the steep hills later that day.Ībove, this is a very quick sketch of the Ferry Building I did while waiting for the F streetcar to arrive on Market. I had a burrito at a place near 18th, and it was not very good. I had decided I would go exploring up Corona Heights, but would draw around the Castro first, maybe eat lunch myself down there. There was a guy camped at the bus stop, and there was a fair bit of odor wafting up, so I just remember a farty smell now when remembering sketching this, so I wanted to be done and run. I added in the watercolor while standing there, the sky had a strange pearlescence, and people lined up at the cafe across the little street form where the F car stops to get their brunch (it may have been a late breakfast / brunch, which is sometimes shortened to ‘lunch’). I actually drew this one first, while the morning fog still lingered, on the corner of 17th and Castro looking up towards Sutro Tower. So, I drew as much as possible in the almost-hour I stood there, added in a few spots of red and a few rainbows, and coloured in the rest later, which itself took ages. The panorama above, which I sketched in the shade on the corner of 18th and Castro, was a lot of detail. The last panorama I did in the Castro, back in 2013 before a sketchcrawl, I’d left uncoloured apart from the red sign of the Castro Theatre. It’s been quite a few years since I was sketching up there, and I wanted to draw something colourful. I decided to go sketching up in the Castro. In the book of my life that will be one of the scenes they film, over a soundtrack of a nice song I like, something by Belle and Sebastian. When I am long gone what will be remembered is that I would get the early train into the city for a sketching day and start off eating little bombolini, one filled with nutella, the other with lemon cream. This is what I do, I don’t mind being predictable. I took the super early train down from Davis, walked over to the Ferry Building to get the little bombolini from the lady that sells them there, I have my habits. ![]() I knew the weather was supposed to be nice, though it started off foggy as you’d expect with the city. I didn’t have a plan as to where I would go, but I thought I would like to try climbing one of the big hills for a big vantagepoint view over the city. It was just before my birthday, and I needed a day out with the sketchbook. A few weeks ago I took the train down to San Francisco for a day of wandering and sketching.
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