#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！:(

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden Center 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...

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.

Trip to SoCal

Friends and I had a last minute trip to SoCal since their baby is with Grandma & Grandpa in Taiwan. It's been a while that we go on a trip together ever since little Jamison was born. 
We felt young again! We went for the taiwanese food and some ocean breeze. of course some sketches.  

Santa Barbara Court House

Monks statues at Hsi Lai Temple (西來寺)

Thanks Patrick & Carrie, I had a blast. and we all miss you baby Jamison. oxoxoxox

USK Taiwan 2012

I visit / see my family once a year. Either I go back to TW or they come to US to visit me. It has been 7 years now. (wow, time flies..) This year I went back home and had an awesome quality of time with them. Families and Friends are just like my backbone that provide the ultimate supports. I feel I am blessed and loved. Every second bit of it. :)

It has been 2 years already since I attended the travel sketching class at PAL (w Steve Curl). 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 Carton Chen 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. :)


The traditional house - san ho yuan (three-section compound) in Taipei. It's rare to be seen in such space-limited, high-density population Taipei city nowadays.

The city park behind Guandu MRT station.

Space Shuttle Endeavour

Can you imagine how awesome when a laying-down-kinda-skyscraper aka retired space shuttle is slowly crawling through your neighborhood and you can see it by just peeking out your house window? Oh well. I cannot physically experience that awesomeness but I certainly can celebrate its achievements to all human beings by using my own way.  Drew it down! :) 

This sketch was done while doing its last historical flyover from north cal to south cal in september, 2012. 

Sketchcrawl SEP & AUG 2012

We were heading to Half Moon Bay for september south bay sketchcrawl. Thanks for Pierre's van ride so we could chat a little bit on the way to there. It was a perfect, not-too-windy day with lots of sunshine upon our shoulders. There was some boats selling fresh fish, crabs. Not too busy until we left around 3 pm, the in coming traffic was just bad for about 10 miles.....

First sketch: Half Moon Bay, Kayak co. "Getting ready"

Half Moon Bay, Kayak co. "Pre-training"

A quick 5 mins boat drawing.

Sketchcrawl on August, 2012.

This time we went to Stanford Mall @ Palo Alto for some sketching. Dedicated members: Conni, Pierre, LuLu, and me. Here are some results:


Kate Spade Store

Louis Vuitton Display Window