Goodbye CandleStick, Hello Levi's!

In 2014, CandleStick Stadium is going to be demolished. The Levi's Stadium, new 49ers home, will take over from the 2015 NFL season. SF sketchers paid our visit to capture this historical moment with our pen and paper. It's an honer to be part of this big history. Thank you and bye bye Candlestick! :)

Sketchcrawl #43 - North Beach SF

My First time sketch at North Beach area in SF. Parking wasn't too bad, traffic at bay bridge was. :)

We started from Caffe Greco, coffee was great, and met up with Laurie's crew at 2pm at Washington Park:


Then i moved to this cute corner cafe with trolly stand at their patio:

See you next time sketcrawlers in july at Portland! :)

SketchCrawl #42, Haight Street, SF

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. (Wiki)

Yes, a hippie town reminds me of Ximending (西門町) in Taiwan. The difference probably is there are more younger people hang out at Ximending.

We started at People's Cafe, then explored around the whole haight street. Here are the 2 drawing I'd finished on spot. 


People in People's Cafe



The Haight Street Highlight: one of the million weird stores, the record shop, lady's legs, a tattoo place.

Meet up @ Grace Cathedral, SF

The hill nearly killed me, but it was a fun and nice day to draw the cathedral. Lots of people showed up. Thanks Laurie again for organizing this amazing meet up. 

This is my 3rd attempt of Grace Cathedral, getting better?



Fountain at the park.




First attempt here.

#41 Sketchcrawl - Chinatown San Francisco

Heading to chinatown for #41 sketchcrawl. I was 10 mins late, didn't see the normal crawlers, but still manage to get these 2 sketches. get the line works on spot, colored them after.

Bush-Grant China Town start point:



China Town Mural with street musician:


sidetones: 好久沒寫中文字，字好醜噢！:(

Sketchcrawl #40, 1st West Coast USKers' Sketchcrawl

I love the idea of USKers' Sketchcrawl. I don't mind the confusion of urban sketchers or sketchcrawlers. We all love draw, sketch, and share our works. The passions and the inspirations that matter me the most. Thanks Jim from Washington state who I met at last year USK symposium, Santo Domingo. Without his initiatives and communication back and forth with the wonderful local sketchers, organizations, I wouldn't have so much fun drawing with 70+ sketchers the pass weekend. 

Time for sketches sharing:

warm up at the Ferry Building front island:

Cable Car at Market st. & VanNess:

Oakland Lake Merritt area the next day:

Lake Merritt, Lake Chalet Restaurant

Group photos:

 

 

Ben and Simone from Montreal. The farthest sketchers attended! Nice to meet you guys. 

Keep sketching!  Cheers!

You can see more work and event recap at 1st West Coast UrbanSketchers' Sketchcrawl blog. Or some artwork we've done at Flickr group.

If you want to join the Sketch events around the bay area, here are some more blogs to follow: SketchCrawl, UrbanSketchers-bayarea, SF Sketchers Meet up.

Sketcrawl #39

Yes, a little late update. 

Sketchcrawl #39 at castro, SF. 

Castro Theater, Hitchcock's "The Birds" was on that day. Using my Lamy fine pen with noodler black ink. watercolored after.

One of my fav USKers, Pete Scully, was there that day! You can see his amazing works at his blog. Honor to see them in person!

Ferry Building Cowgirl Creamery

Nothing better than a cup of handcraft blue bottle coffee and sketching for the day. 

Cowgirl Creamery cheese shop at Ferry Building, SF. 

Alamo Square, Six Sisters Victorian Houses

Right before join the new company, I got a little getaway to SF at a regular work day. no crowds, no traffic. Just me and a perfect nice sketch day.