Here’s my take on this week’s word: Sacrafice. For those of you that aren’t up so much on baseball or softball lingo: it’s a strategic move by one player that advances another player to the next base while the he (the first player) is “sacrificed” for an out. I hope that clears it up. Go team!
Coming up with an image for this word was tough. I wanted something different and then this image just popped up. The sushi and chop sticks were hard to draw believable, so I cut and pasted them from the web. Hey, they turned out pretty nice with the rest of the hand drawn stuff. Yummie…Dinner time.
To start the four day Independence Day weekend, I joined a sketching group called Sketch Crawl. These folks meet every other month and sketch all over town. It’s international. Click the link to see if there’s a group that meets in your area. Here’s some watercolor paintings that I came home with:
High on top a hill overlooking the great San Francisco skyline is the Grace Cathedral. The walk to this building is half the fun because in order to get there if you’re on foot, you must go up sidewalks so steep that you need handrails. What a workout! Although, when you get to the top, the view is spectular. I tried to start with the basic geometry of the building and get the details as the painting progressed. I ran out of time but got just enough detail of the round stained glass window to move on to the next sketch. Afterwards, I noticed that the sketchy feel of the parts unfinished and without much detail added more to the middle portion of the church.
I painted this from a plaza overlooking Chinatown’s “Empress of China Restuarant”. I’ve attended many weddings at this place and everytime I went would say to myself “I’ve got to paint this one day”. Today I did.
Northern California experienced record breaking rains this year. I tried to remember that as I painted this piece. I wanted to make everything look as green as possible. The hint of golden sunlight breaks through the sky as this happy couple doesn’t let the weather distract them from each other’s attraction.
Here’s two drawings I just completed for a friend’s participation in the “Avon Walk for Breast Cancer”. My friend was looking for t-shirts and baseball cap images using her theme called “Tickled Pink”. It represented their walking/running team.
Luckily, they’re also good images for this week’s Illustration Friday word: “run”.