Another of Robert Arneson’s Eggheads series; it’s outside Turner Wright Hall, and is called ‘Yin and Yang’. God knows which is meant to be which though. I’ve drawn it before in fact, a couple of years ago, from a different angle:
Also posted at Urban Sketchers. By the way, that super-blog extraordinaire is nearly a year old…
“Eye on Mrak“, one the Egghead sculptures made by the late Robert Arneson, former UC Davis art professor. This one is outside Mrak Hall, and has a large eye that looks up at proceedings within (perhaps it has eggs-ray vision, I don’t know). Oh come on, this is petescully.com, you must have known a silly egg-based pun would come along at some point. Anyway I sketched this dude at lunchtime today.
To learn more about the UC Davis Eggheads (if you absolutely have to), please see: eggheads.ucdavis.edu.
I was fortunate enough to be one of the five winners of Chronicle Books’ recent Moleskine: District of You competetion, for posting several of my drawings on their Flickr group. So cool! Thanks guys! I received my prize today, a set of new Moleys, from the small cahiers (the ones like I used for Save the World and Hold Pen in Unusual Way, but in red), a regular moleskine sketchbook plus a large Folio legendary sketchbook. These will be fun to fill!
For one reason or other, not been easy for me to sketch lately, but I found myself in downtown Santa Rosa on Saturday afternoon, doing a little shopping, a little reading, and I stopped into the Stout Brothers pub to do a little writing, and perhaps a little drawing. I had a couple of beers and a big glass of water (I’m trying to drink more water these days), and drew the bar. I really did need a wee, but didn’t want anyone to nick my seat, and lose me my vantagepoint. So I held on until I finished. I’m sure you don’t need to know that, but hey, these are the realities of being a modern urban sketcher.
I’ve been having a little sketching break – I don’t know if I meant to or not, but my mind has been under important things – but managed to draw on tuesday lunchtime. It’s not a good drawing, and is just of the Silo once again, but even during these periods it is important to at least exercise the fingers (in fact I brought two end-of-life micron 01s to a shuddering end with this particular sketch). I feel as though this drawing is like a few words spoken in the middle of the night, before going back to sleep. I’ll be back drawing again, I know it.
I like October, the month of changes. I don’t know if I like this October in particular much, but at least the air is cooler, crisp and inviting.
Been on a little drawing hiatus this past week: the sketchbook will be open again soon! All need a break during stressful times. Meanwhile, did this quick sketch while changing buses in Sacramento, waiting to go to the airport to meet my wife and son. That’s the Capitol Park on L street, as the sun sets.
Second Street, Davis; the Varsity Theater. Today was hot and bright; I sat and drew this in the shade of a tree. The Fall quarter began this week, and there are lots of new students milling about in packs, impressing each other. It’s new year’s day in a college town.
I remembered that exactly ten years ago I moved over to Belgium for my year abroad, and it rained constantly for the first couple of weeks that I was there. A million miles from here, with nigh-on 100 degree weather. And another thought: it is exactly four years since I emigrated from the UK to live in America. The first job I got here was in the bookstore on this very street, directly opposite the Varsity. I don’t think I imagined we’d still be here now. Funny how the years go by. I got myself a strawberry lemonade smoothie, and went home.
A very long and busy week, ending with a haircut and a beer, and some thoughts rolling out of my head and onto the page. Trying something else out. #1 in a series of 1.
Yesterday was the 24th worldwide sketchcrawl. I went to the zoo in the morning, so my son could see the monkeys and, er, tractors, and afterwards I popped into Sacramento to do some sketchcrawling. Against my better judgement; it was so hot, and I had such a headache, that I only managed the one before wandering about and calling it a day.
This old building is on the corner of L and 15th, Sacramento.
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