My bubble diagram of my mental landscape. I think I was in a bit of a depressive episode when I drew this one. I should redraw this now and then to see how things change. Because, if nothing else, we know that landscapes change over time.
What would yours look like?
A little stir crazy during this dumb pandemic? Thankfully, we have so many lovely places to visit and the weather that makes it even nicer.
This is a fun new area with pots and succulents.
I spy a new play area over there.
This looks like another new area. some awesome boulders and a twig teepee structure. I def want to play here.
I’m currently obsessed with Daniel Smith Pyroll Orange. It is perfect for this cone.
Watercolor sketchbook with some pots and succulents and an orange cone.
watercolor painting in a sketchbook of a Clanculus margaritarius
I’m not heading to the ranch so T is sending me pictures. I am drawing them and it feels just as nice and meditative as getting to go up there.
I’m really enjoying sketching with my Lamy Safari pens. I’m most worried about upkeep for them, though. They need to be cleaned regularly and I am not great at that kind of thing. Right now I amusing Noodler’s Ink Black with the special refillable cartridges. Why do they come with non-water resistant blue ink? No one wants that!
I don’t usually have specific sketchbooks for septic things but maybe I should do that more often! I I started this with one sketch of a bird many years ago and I picked it up again recently and managed to finish the project!
some of the sketches are bad and some are great, as is usual in a sketchbook. Maybe I will make some stickers from the cutest ones.
flip through of a sketchbooks of cute small birds. ink and watercolor.
My 2019 HOOT painting has dropped! I like the deckled edges of this one. I’m thinking maybe I should have added some nice blues to the background. I can still do that, I guess.
Turquoise pots are just lovely aren’t they? I bought this one at Pottery and Beyond in Emeryville.
Whoever is doing the floral design for Blue Bottle is killing it.
Taking some time to draw at the coffee shop.
In September I went to sketch with the East Bay Sketchers at the garden on top of the Salesforce Transit Center. Two weeks later they discovered cracks in the beams and closed it! I hope they figure out what is happening and reopen it soon.
I did not know that there was a little funicular to get to the top. sadly, it was not open when we got there.
We walked around and looked for good views to draw. Somehow, once again, I seem to have not taken any pictures.
I drew the courtyard area. It was a very lively and colorful space!
I was very interested int eh planting plans. There were some trees that I gave the side-eye as ones that get HUGE. like is this really engineered to deal with a 130 ft.dgf Aurucaia araucana? I’m sure they did think of everything.
in 1906 the earthquake that burned down SF left many people homeless. Tiny ‘earthquake shacks’ were built to house people quickly. There are not that many of them left in SF but my sister happens to live in one of them!
I drew it from Google maps and I will frame it and give it to her for her birthday. I had such fun drawing and painting this!
I just thought I would post some of the various painting and drawing I have been doing. Some of it is work related and some is not!
Green and gold watercolor swatches.
I did this quick visualization for a client recently. We want to remove this lawn, a little privacy fence (not too overwhelming) and some interesting colorful plants.
Okay, so I also took this irrigation class through the Zone 7 Water Agency. the class was taught by Lori Palmquist, who is an irrigation WIZARD. She’s a good speaker and a good teacher. I may also have accosted her about some APLD stuff and she was like WhoTF are you?!? LOL. No worries, Lady, I’m just a stranger asking you for access to this website you used to work on. Don’t mind me! Anyway, here is an illustration of an irrigation manifold. As you can see, I am an excellent student who does not struggle to pay attention.
I should be learning about what these things are and do but instead I am drawing them. Don’t come at me, I have ADHD.
We had a little field trip to Drake’s Beach and I did a quick vignette.
Some other sketchy doodles for work:
Snapped a picture of a Tibouchina urvilleana on a neighborhood walk and then decided to sketch it. I love the look of the dark river rock and the fallen purple petals.
Still thinking about visualizing. I do like 3D scenes in SketchUp. It’s nice to have a but of that realistic texturing and the rendered shadows are super nice as well. In my own hand drawings I tend to not put those dramatic shadows in because I worry about ruining the drawing. :D
I think one of my annoyances with SketchUp is just have to do with finding the right plant objects to use. If a picture looks fairly realistic the plants need to be pretty darn close the actual plant being spec’ed in the plan otherwise homeowners get confused. With a hand-drawing you can just be like, “oh yeah, this is an artistic rendition”.
Again, these are not my design they are from the wonderful Susan at Garden Alchemy.
Oh, yeah, I also created that metal hoop sculpture you see in the photos in SketchUp and you can find it in the 3D Warehouse and use it if you want to!
