勾画过去
[Suhita Shirodkar在加利福尼亚]我感兴趣的东西似乎落在光谱的两边。有一些充满能量的地方充满了人，我喜欢画画。而当我不这样做的时候，我就会被另一个时代的古老遗迹所吸引。安静的、被遗忘的角落，褪色的标志，以及庄严的老房子，有时 [...] 。
交易 "美元丹
[by Suhita Shirodkar] Dealin’ Dollar Dan. How can you not love a character named that? He once belonged to the equally evocatively named Gold Rush Motors. Not anymore. The business is now called Service Rent-A-Car. Sam’s Downtown Feed & Pet Supply. A magical store I am going to have to go back and sketch the […]
在加州圣何塞追寻古老的标志
Suhita Shirodkar in San Jose, California There’s the kind of vintage sign that you will see on a decrepit building, one that is in danger of being torn down. Like the Burbank Cinema on South Bascom Avenue, which is currently rented out as a dance studio but will eventually be sold to a developer. My […]
尖端酒业、时代熟食店、利比公司、西部电器和卡普里汽车旅馆。
Businesses don’t come with quaint names like that anymore. Tip Top Liquors, San Jose. A yelp review claims this: “Hidden behind a modest and grimy exterior is a treasure trove for craft beer lovers.” Sketched in the evening light, when even the grimiest of storefronts has a golden glow. The sign for Time Delicatessen, which […]
更多复古标志
by Suhita Shirodkar in San Jose, California I sketched two signs this week. They’re the sort of signs you don’t see around anymore. Trouble is, I don’t know their vintage, or very much about them at all. I even googled them, and asked people around in both malls if they knew anything about them… nothing so […]
Vintage Signs
It’s a recent obsession. I’ve been tracking down and sketching signs near San Jose, California.The nice thing about hunting down these hidden signs is that every so often, someone will write in and tell me about a sign I haven’t sketched, and sometimes it’s surprising how much I haven’t discovered of places that are quite […]
复古招牌
When you sketch a place – a view, a street, a monument – you get to know it so well. The light, the textures, the colors, all the stuff you would miss if you weren’t looking so deeply. So it’s a bittersweet feeling when it no longer exists: I am glad I got to sketch […]