Yes, we’ve landed the SF/Bay area, and yes, it’s a sketchers’ paradise, to be sure. Setting up home and office have had to be priorities, but I hope I’m finally getting into a sketching/painting rhythm, because there’s a LOT out here to draw and paint, folks!
This is from a ‘hood in San Francisco, south of Golden Gate Park. The contrast of the bright blue house, lower right, with the upper left white buildings (Condos? Outrageously expensive homes?)—that’s what caught my eye. Oh, it’s good to be drawing again!
I was a nineteen-year-old university student when I met Sally, a white-haired, bandana-wearing woman in her sixties. She was pursuing an MFA in painting. She was so exuberant about creating art that she inspired me to decide I would become an artist, too, once I came closer to retirement. Forty years later, it’s time. As I climb an intentional learning curve in art, I share these posts to keep myself accountable. May my efforts inspire others the way Sally inspired me.
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