San Francisco again, it's a great place to go sketching. I went down on saturday for a bit of mooching and discovering, largely in the SoMa area. As usual I started at the Ferry Building Farmer's Market, and was intending on heading eventually to the Mission district, but never made it. I had some mulligatawny, went to the Cartoon Art Museum (which was interesting, inspiring, educational, but not really worth six bucks) before wandering over to Yerba Buena Gardens for a bit of drawing. Again, for the third SF sketching outing in a row (well, fourth actually, come to think of it) it was a sunny sunshiney day, with only wisps of ocean fog creeping up over the horizon. I left Yerba Buena (below left) and crossed over to Market, walking towards Civic Center. Flippinghell, it's funny how cities soemtimes change dramatically within a few blocks! The Tenderloin is, as I'd heard, pretty rough, and suddenly there were porno cinemas and scores of people just hanging around with little to do. There was a lot to sketch, but I felt a little bit uncomfy, but I did take a few photos. I went up to the UN plaza, among the homeless and the drunks, and I did make a sketch of the domed city hall (see below right), before strolling back down towards union square. And then a bit later on, I drew the picture at the top of this entry, on the corner of Mission and 2nd. After a bite to eat and a beer at Eddie Rickenbacker's, an interesting place full of motorcycles hanging from the rafters, it was time to go home, with tired legs and sleepy eyes. But on the way back I passed an interesting strcuture in the street; I stood beneath it and took the photograph below. Definitely a touch of Death Star tunnel shaft about it...
les quartiers de san francisco
19.9.07 07:24
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martha / Website (22.9.07 00:13) Wonderful SF sketches, Pete! I should get over there to do some myself. I sounds like you did quite a bit of walking there too. You are an intrepid sketcher! |
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andrea joseph / Website (22.9.07 11:30) Wow! I thought I'd seen every sketchblog there was to see. I was directed here via Martha's blog I can't believe I've never been here before. Your work is wonderful! Beautiful clean lines. Great stuff, just going for a further look around... |
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petescully / Website (22.9.07 18:50) thanks! i was very very tired by the end of the day. i was tired at the beginning, too, but that didn't stop me going. there's just more to draw in the city than in davis. |
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Roshan (25.9.07 06:31) Wow, that is like the coolest compliment ever!! 'The Intrepid Mr Scully'. I'd love to be called intrepid. Unfortunately, there's nothing I do that would warrant it.... |
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petescully / Website (26.9.07 05:41) well roshe...there's always the intrepid fox, snakebite, drink up...i have only vague memories... |
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