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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We started from <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/caffe-greco-san-francisco" target="_blank">Caffe Greco</a>, coffee was great, and met up with Laurie's crew at 2pm at Washington Park:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then i moved to this cute corner cafe with trolly stand at their patio:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See you next time sketcrawlers in july at Portland! :)</span>henghuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333567474340169808noreply@blogger.com0North Beach, San Francisco, CA, USA37.803806 -122.4104168999999737.79126 -122.43058689999997 37.816352 -122.39024689999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046744406773024490.post-57481930066572806212014-04-06T16:59:00.003-07:002014-04-06T17:03:48.502-07:00New Sketching Project<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently started a new project that I was committed to it 12-13 years ago. It was a casual conversation in the ADs Mag's conference room that Jully and me went together for internships. We said one day we'll draw a book for each other! She did a sketchpad book for me when i went to US the first time. Now is my turn to draw one to her for her wedding! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sneak peak of the couple pages i did, hopefully I can finish the book before my beloved BFF, jully's wedding. and she won't read my blog until she sees the book......</span><br />
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henghuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333567474340169808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046744406773024490.post-62548190968382734532014-03-02T14:39:00.001-08:002014-03-02T14:39:16.522-08:00SketchCrawl #42, Haight Street, SF<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called The Haight and The Upper Haight. The neighborhood is known for its history of hippie subculture. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight-Ashbury" target="_blank">Wiki</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, a hippie town reminds me of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ximending (西門町) in Taiwan. The difference probably is there are more younger people hang out at Ximending.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We started at <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/peoples-cafe-san-francisco" target="_blank">People's Cafe</a>, then explored around the whole haight street. Here are the 2 drawing I'd finished on spot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Haight Street Highlight: one of the million weird stores, the record shop, lady's legs, a tattoo place.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is my 3rd attempt of Grace Cathedral, getting better?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First attempt <a href="http://neywang.blogspot.com/2012/07/after-santo-domingo-symposium.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Telemarketers are tenacious as well. We all are. achieving new goals in new ways when old one didn't work.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China Town Mural with street musician:</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sidetones: <span style="font-size: x-small;">好久沒寫中文字,字好醜噢!:(</span></span>henghuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333567474340169808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046744406773024490.post-11827139773163470362013-08-11T15:04:00.001-07:002013-08-13T22:15:33.379-07:00Once Upon a Time in Wonderland<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gamblegarden.org/" target="_blank">Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden Center </a>in Palo Alto, CA. A small and cute size garden near Palo Alto downtown area. Second time here for sketching. Big bunny makes me feel like I am in Alice wonderland, magic soon will happen...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see more work and event recap at <a href="http://wcuskskcrawl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">1st West Coast UrbanSketchers' Sketchcrawl blog</a>. Or some artwork we've done at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/wcuskskcrawlers/" target="_blank">Flickr group</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to join the Sketch events around the bay area, here are some more blogs to follow: <a href="http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/" target="_blank">SketchCrawl</a>, <a href="http://urbansketchers-bayarea.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">UrbanSketchers-bayarea</a>, <a href="http://www.meetup.com/SF-Sketchers/" target="_blank">SF Sketchers Meet up</a>.</span>henghuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333567474340169808noreply@blogger.com0S.F. Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA37.795922999999988 -122.3920520000000437.770829999999989 -122.43239250000003 37.821015999999986 -122.35171150000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046744406773024490.post-112061586035247102013-07-21T12:31:00.000-07:002013-07-21T13:09:59.515-07:00Sketcrawl #39<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, a little late update. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my fav USKers, Pete Scully, was there that day! You can see his amazing works at his <a href="http://petescully.com/2013/04/16/castro-street/" target="_blank">blog</a>. Honor to see them in person!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We felt young again! We went for the taiwanese food and some ocean breeze. of course some sketches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks Patrick & Carrie, I had a blast. and we all miss you baby Jamison. oxoxoxox</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been 2 years already since I attended the travel sketching class at PAL (w <a href="http://stevecurl.com/stevecurl.com/About_Me.html" target="_blank">Steve Curl</a>). I finally have the little (still not much) confidence to reach out to the sketching group in Taiwan and ask them if they would have sketching events during my visit. Professor <a href="http://tututu.posterous.com/" target="_blank">Carton Chen</a> was the one that organized the USK Taipei event (dedicated for me! super!) and we had a great great time. Not only I felt the honer to draw my hometown but also with a group of people shared the same passions and interests. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The traditional house - san ho yuan (three-section compound)</span><span style="font-family: verdana, MingLiU, PMingLiU;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in Taipei. It's rare to be seen in such</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> space-limited, high-density population Taipei city nowadays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This sketch was done while doing its last historical flyover from north cal to south cal in september, 2012. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First sketch: Half Moon Bay, Kayak co. "Getting ready"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Half Moon Bay, Kayak co. "Pre-training"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time we went to Stanford Mall @ Palo Alto for some sketching. Dedicated members: Conni, Pierre, LuLu, and me. Here are some results:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Vista House at Crown Point Oregon is the main entrance if you are going to Multnomah Fall. You can get a very nice view of Columbia River from the top of the building. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fun Facts: Edgar M. Lazarus was the lead architect at the time. Vista House is an example of German “Art Nouveau” architecture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside the car: Tim was the only driver of the whole trip. We 2 girls were either chi chatting or sleeping. Ha. Thanks Tim. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's kindda hard to spend time on sketching if you travel with friends aren't into drawing. I use thumbnail concepts to captures some interesting scenes or places that we went to record this wonderful memory instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also went to Multnomah Falls (35 mins away from Portland) on Sunday. it's sooo pretty. The 2 tier falls could be as nice as Yosemite Fall I would say. especially the bridge in between. Pretty sure it has been seen in plenty of movies. My hardcore-disney-fan friend just pointed out the new Cars theme at California Adventure has this bridge and waterfall in it. Maybe SolCal gangs can double check that if my friend is correct. :) </span>henghuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333567474340169808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046744406773024490.post-88268493213551059152012-08-26T15:43:00.000-07:002012-08-26T15:43:23.517-07:00The Kite Runner<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must confess that I don't read novel or fiction book nowadays except for graphic novel or art related books. The last "book" in general I fully finished was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0810970686/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0810970686&linkCode=as2&tag=iw.eric.asia-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Diary of a wimpy kid 3</a> by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/mn/landing/B001J93AUI/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&tag=iw.eric.asia-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeff Kinney</a>. (Yes, I know, they are at book 7 now...geesh) But if you ask me what the last novel I read was actually "The Kite Runner". (I have 30ish pages left, almost there.. woohoo..) I love the story thus far and kinda feel sad in heart a bit. Don't know why. Maybe the way <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_Hosseini" target="_blank">Khaled Hosseini</a> describes the story was so close to real life that not everything has happy ending or is perfectly stated. But, that's also the beauty of the life, isn't it? Let's embrace it. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am glad he lives in San Jose and is willing to do a lot of FREE public speakings to inspire people here or around the world. Luckily I attended one of them and got his kind words and autograph! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll keep up the good work. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>henghuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333567474340169808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046744406773024490.post-3988339790701989822012-08-20T22:00:00.001-07:002012-08-20T22:00:48.384-07:00Gnome Gnome and Gnomes<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This pass weekend I got a chance to revisit friend's grandpa grandma's house. Last time when I was there I haven't started my sketching yet. I always admire their decorations in the house, yard, and kitchen. I'm usually just taking pictures around the house, but this time I asked if I can sketch their back yard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are so many gnomes around the front and back yards. I tried to fit as much as I can in my sketch........ and luckily they just repainted them.... love the vivid color. Feel like living in the fairy tales.... :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the backgrounds are in major big cities: New York (time square, Brooklyn bridge), San Francisco, Los Angelus, and Tokyo. It's called "<a href="http://www.sjmusart.org/hell-and-back-sandow-birks-divine-comedy" target="_blank">To Hell and Back: Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy</a>". Well, apparently not a "comedy" for me, b</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ut the drawing skills are just </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spectacular! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Went down and quickly drew the <a href="http://www.sjmusart.org/mexicanisimo-through-artists-eyes" target="_blank">Mexicanisimo through artist's eyes</a>, a tradition Mexican-senor and a street vendor cart. The Nacho man is quite interesting. I should go again at <a href="http://museums.bankofamerica.com/" target="_blank">Bank of American Free Museum Day</a>. Watercolor the nacho man might be fun too. Hmmm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>henghuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333567474340169808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046744406773024490.post-52721270360065346492012-08-08T21:59:00.002-07:002012-08-09T00:58:55.422-07:00Little Practice at the Hood<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last saturday, looking around and see what I can draw from my neighborhood. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Started with this awkward, disharmony scene right behind the busy Ranch 99 Market plaza. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I named it....."the truck and the bulldozer"</span><br />
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