And so (after many fliers and several emails and the odd tweet) the 29th Worldwide Sketchcrawl came to Davis. I met up with several sketchers, some of whom were brand new to Davis (just as I was on my first ‘crawl here at the end of 05), while some were long time locals. We started at the Carousel, davis-mom-central, and when people started arriving I tried my hand at standing and sketching and talking – I’m trying to get the hang of multi-tasking! And sketching people – I figured I’d focus more on that today, hence meeting by the Farmer’s Market.
It was a nice warm day – not like the mid-90s weather we’ve had all week, but still not feeling autumnal in the slightest. I sketched the Kettle Korn stall while people ambled past – I even met and spoke briefly with Michael Corbett, who I had sketched the week before at his book talk.
This is Rahman Azari, a colleague of mine and great artist (I went to see his work exhibited a few weeks ago at the Stonegate ArtFest), trying out the Koi waterbrush and paint set that I had recommended. I also tried a portrait of another sketcher, Mary Hook, who told me about the Davis Civic Arts Foundation (I think they are called) – something for me to check out.
And here are some Mormons, who (with quite a few others) were playing music in the park. They were very pleased to see the quick sketch I’d done of them, so I gave them a sketchcrawl leaflet and told them to check us out. Actually I quite liked the blue guitar, and I am specifically trying to sketch musicians these days.
More to come!!!
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hahahaha – I genuinely read that line as “and here are some morons”
Glad it went well. We’ll talk about it more later, I’m sure.
D’oh! Couldn’t work out how to turn off the italics in that last post…
Haha! Yeah, the sketchcrawl went pretty well, but best of all… I had a KWAK at the end! I found a place which does Kwak, with the proper glass and everything. Cheap too.
Sorry I couldn’t make it. Looks like you had a great time and managed to get a couple of other sketchers out too! Hope to join you next time.
It was fun, we had about ten people total, some of whom were newcomers to Davis, so it was a nice mix. I’ll organize another soon so I’ll be in touch! (even if it rains, there will be another sketchcrawl…)
Wow, proper Kwak! Can’t even get that in Londres.
Oh yes. Proper Kwak. What a find! Now we just need Fruit Defendu and Charles Quint (I forgot, Kwak is my third favourite after them two) and I’m all set.