素描爬行45：旧金山
作者：加里-阿马罗在旧金山 这次的写生活动人数异常少。我们在Embarcadero的Ferry Building见面，我以前画过很多次，所以这次我去看了附近的Flaming Lotus Girls的雕塑SOMA，据说它代表了两个神经元在交流中开火 [...] 。
我在旧金山AAU的夏季外景绘画课（第10部分：Presidio）。
By Gary Amaro in San Francisco The most interesting thing about the Presidio of San Francisco right about now is probably the thing I didn’t draw. The site has been a military instalation since 1776 when it was fortified by the Spanish, and it has changed hands to Mexico and then to the United States for whom it […]
我在旧金山 AAU 上的夏季外景绘画课（第 9 部分：缆车博物馆）
八点半开始上课，博物馆十点才开门，所以我们在外面的诺布山街区写生了一会儿，我就在街对面画了这幅旧金山缆车博物馆的风景。每隔一段时间，就会有一辆真正的缆车驶过来，在那里停上几 [...] 分钟。
My Summer Location Drawing Class at AAU, San Francisco (Pt 8: the san francisco zoo)
I had never been to the SF Zoo, though I had just been to the Denver Zoo a few weeks before with my buddy Adam, who, back in the day, used to visit the zoo in Sacramento with me where we’d see extraordinary things – steam rising off the haunches of mating zebras in winter, gibbons […]
My Summer Location Drawing Class at AAU, San Francisco (Pt 7: Chinatown)
A pigeon poop splats on my boot heel as I’m drawing Chinatown’s Dragon Gate entrance on Grant Street, thankfully missing my book. I look down to notice that, here against the wall under the eaves, I’m surrounded by dozens of white sidewalk spots. Do I move? Are you kidding? I’m in the middle of a drawing. […]
我在旧金山AAU的夏季外景绘画课（第6部分：海德街码头）。
我对大海和海洋故事以及船舶传说的热爱使我每隔一段时间就会回到海德街码头，这里是旧金山国家海洋历史公园的一部分。 我以前在这里贴过素描，经常画1886年的方形跳板Balclutha，它有高大的桅杆和复杂的索具，所以这次我把注意力转移到一些[...]。
我在旧金山AAU的夏季外景绘画课（第五部分：菲尔伯特阶梯）。
If you are ever planning to meet someone at the Filbert Steps, be very clear whether you mean at their bottom at Sansome Street or three vertical blocks of scenic gardens and wooden stairs higher at their other terminus atop Telegraph Hill. You might also mention that you do not mean the other end of Filbert Street, way across town, […]
My Summer Location Drawing Class at AAU, San Francisco (Pt 4: the de Young Museum)
We met in the morning at the bandshell in Golden Gate Park, between the de Young Museum and the California Academy of the Sciences, with San Francisco’s usual summer fog shrouding the tall cypress and eucalyptus trees and the twisting angular mass of the de Young’s observation tower, seen in my sketch above. Plenty to see outside […]
My Summer Location Drawing Class at AAU, San Francisco (Pt 3: the Ferry Building)
A 1906 film shot from the front of a cable car shows a trip down Market Street through all manner of traffic, pedestrian, horse-drawn, cable, and auto, and heading straight for the looming tower of the Ferry Building Terminal. Four days later, the great earthquake destroyed much of the city, but the Ferry Building remained. These days, the […]
My Summer Location Drawing Class at AAU, San Francisco (Part 2: Yerba Buena Gardens)
Class meets twice a week for six hours a session, and at a different location each day. For our second session, we practiced our meeting up skills in this beautiful downtown park with only minimal wrangling. Having warmed up with a couple of passenger portraits on the BART train, I settled atop a high concrete planter to draw my assistant, […]