11 April 09

A Birthday Sketchcrawl

sketchcrawl 09 Today was the 22nd Worldwide Sketchcrawl; it was also Numenius’ birthday. We arrived at the Capitol in Sacramento at 10:30 and were asked more than once whether we (two of us) were the anti-bank bailout demonstration. Well, we were, I suppose, subverting the dominant paradigm, that of digital cameras. Raise your right fist full of pens, people.

sketchcrawl April 09 We went for a quick hot chocolate to the Temple Cafe (open 365 days a year, equal opportunity to all religions) and moved on to the library, where we spent a pleasant hour or so browsing and sketching. On to Art Ellis for some watercolors, rice paper and bookcloth (N took a quick detour to the electronics store), and we ended up at the Crocker Art Museum for a look at the Buddhas exhibition which was excellent and is now in its final week (it ended up being, for me, a crash course in the history of Buddhism, well worth it for that reason alone, but some of the pieces were stunning; I particularly loved the calligraphed palm leaves).

sketchcrawl April 09 Home, and Thai Nakorn for dinner followed by yoghurt at CultivĂ©. What a day. A purple day: I used a purple Micron for my sketches for the first time, and azaleas were in profusion…

A post-script: Jobs we’d hate to have #747: the graveyard shift at the bail bond office.

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  1. this is great stuff, i’m sad i couldn’t make it now. i stayed inside, due to being stricken by allergies and lie-ins. the use of purple micron is always a winner. i drew the very same dome once in purple micron against the clock (waiting for the davis bus): http://www.flickr.com/photos/petescully/536980543/in/set-72157600874174622/


    petescully    12. April 2009, 00:50    Link
  2. Pete: thanks. Sorry you couldn’t make it either, I hope the rain improved the allergy situation a little? I love your Capitol sketch and am quite taken with the quality of the purple micron versus say brown.


    Pica    12. April 2009, 02:54    Link
  3. Wonderful sketches! I love the purple.

    Happy birthday, Numenius!


    dale    12. April 2009, 05:22    Link
  4. Happy birthday to Numenius … and I really enjoyed the sketches!


    maria    12. April 2009, 09:36    Link
  5. Happy Birthday, Numenius!


    Rana    12. April 2009, 13:47    Link
  6. I thought the dominant paradigm was Blogging.


    Ron Sullivan    12. April 2009, 20:57    Link
  7. Gorgeous colors! That purple on yellow buddha with shadow!


    andrea mummert    15. April 2009, 10:18    Link

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