More samplings of my vacation sketching. Sometimes I can grab a business card, but this time a napkin sufficed. We didn’t get the usual cold-windy-foggy weather in San Francisco. It was three days of blue, blue skies. Dreamy! Labor Day weekend and the line was too long for a cable car ride.
Union Square. . .what a scene! And Old Man Time sleeping through it all – that beard! Who could resist?!
Next stationary figure I found was a mannikin in Uniqlo, a trendy clothing store that had a comfortable bench for me. (I poop out very quickly when “shopping”) I had gotten the rough sketch done before I realized I was looking at my son Andrew – the style I mean. He goes to UC Berkeley across the Bay, so it makes sense. When I start to write down everything we did in one afternoon I realize why I get worn out in the city. Fun though!
Skipping over the dinner with friends, next day shopping at Flax art store for specialty papers, the rejuvenating body scrub and oil massage at Imperial Day Spa and lunch at Japantown, and ending the day at Ghiradelli Square, where there were precious moments to draw.
By 2pm the next day our vacation was over, but not before coffee with our hostess with her 14th floor views of the bay and two bridges! Then a pedicab ride provided by a UC grad who majored in math and physics. Lunch with friends at the bustling Ferry Building, and a pre-arranged viewing of the new photography show at Pier 24. This was the last page of the sketchbook, just notes and cut outs to help me remember.
There’s never enough to time to do decent sketches of it all, unless you move very slowly through your day. I’ve learned over the years to be satisfied with what I can throw my net around as it comes my way.
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Dear Susan, as always, I enjoy work and commentary. I feel like a passenger on your ride. Thanks…. Bonnie Rosen
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So much fun to view your vacation and remember my own experiences in some of the places. Love to see what you captured…and Happy Anniversary!
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