We visited friends down the street for dinner. Even better than the delicious meal was seeing three generations of women working together to put the meal on the table, the most senior at the stove, the youngest counting out and placing silverware on the table, and the middle woman doing everything in between. It was a treat to feast on a meal so warmly prepared.
Today we painted at the Casa del Rey Garden in Balboa Park. There were roses, palm trees, terraces, walkways, a wishing pond, and these two young cypress trees that totally caught my eye. I liked how their shape and color contrasted with the walls and paths.
This week’s Tuesday night still-life.
A few vistas around San Diego are always on my mind, mostly because they are compellingly beautiful yet too challenging to portray adequately. One of these places is the rows of cypress trees at Inspiration Point in Balboa Park. I love looking at the cypress shapes and the shadows they cast on the ground, and I was happy that this was the location for our weekly San Diego Watercolor Society paintout.
Kona is famous for its coffee, and, having sampled so much of it during our week on the Big Island, I understand how it earned its good reputation. Although we never took a farm tour, my last sketch from this trip shows the entrance to a large coffee farm.
Absorbing the beauty of Hawaii from the lanai seems to be everyone’s go-to activity.
Slow breakfasts with quick sketches are a delightful combination. This one is at Kaya’s on the Big Island.
Deliberate Sketching 