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And so onto our favourite current construction project on campus, one that’s been going on for a very long time now, the Chemistry Building’s new wing. Last time out it had gone from green coverings to orange, and then into a very Fonzie-esque black leather with studs. Now the final cladding is going on and it’s a kind of fashionable grey rectangular tile pattern (a bit like the Tottenham stadium) which was being placed as you can see here. This being another in-progress view, it’s fun to look back on those in years to come, it will never look exactly like this again. I like this sort of documentation.

october’s gonna october

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More lunchtime sketching on campus. You’d be forgiven for getting a bit tired of the subject. Perhaps you come here to see drawings from my global travels, and they come along every so often, even if the ‘global’ bit is mostly just ‘London’. But you get to see a lot of Davis, and UC Davis specifically, that’s where I spend my days. Most of us spend our days in some place or other, looking longingly at the lovely locations the rest of the world seems to be at on Instagram, wishing you could pop over to Paris, take a trip to Tokyo, or dash over to, I dunno, Dortmund, but we got stuff to get on with. October’s gonna October. Here then are a couple of sketches from last week, I left them a little unfinished because they are finished enough, both from Hutchison Avenue on campus. Above, the Student Community Center, always a hub of activity. Below, sat outside the Silo looking over the the Katherine Esau Science Hall, with that huge greenhouse on the top.

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