There’s a lot to catch up on, I’m behind in my posting again. I’ve been busy. The world has been pretty busy. I’m looking back at sketches from this golden time called ‘October’ when there was still a bit of hope, but alas now we look forward to a 2025 of unknown quality. Anyway, I will still be drawing the world, as long as my fingers can still hold a pen. On that note, here are some drawings from Fall Quarter on the UC Davis campus. As I type, the Fall has ended (the Quarter, not the band, which I guess ended when Mark E. Smith died), and there is a big rain storm blowing all those leaves into all those gutters. There was even a tornado down on Santa Cruz at the weekend, which is rare enough. I like the sound of heavy rain as I wake up in the morning, drumming down on the carport. It wasn’t rainy during Fall, far from it. I have a lot of sketches of colourful treescapes to come, but to start off with here are three panoramic views from campus. Above, the South Hall, one of the oldest buildings on campus,

This one above is a sketch I did at our annual Fall Welcome for Statistics and Data Science, where we had pumpkin decorating, games and food in the courtyard of our building. It was a nice event, and the Fall colours were starting to come in, though I didn’t colour those in, you have to imagine them. I didn’t decorate a pumpkin this year. I didn’t even do one at home for Halloween, wasn’t really feeling it.

Finally, a long drawing of the other side of South Hall, across from University House, next to Voorhies. I have drawn this before. I have drawn all of these before. But they were at different times, so it’s not the same. I wonder sometimes, if I ever moved to another town would I be moving in with this sort of purpose, “I shall draw this entire town! I have moved on from Davis and will now draw this new place!” I mean I would anyway, but I’ve built up a lot of drawings over the years of this one city and university, enough to say I’ve found my place in it. Then again I see the entire world as my sketching model, and I just keep drawing because I have to, or until my fingers fall off. Lots more posts from the past two months to come…