2014-2014 Sketchbook – Samantha C George

This sketchbook only took 5 1/2 months to fill, I have been drawing more yay!

Exploring Our New Neighborhood, Disneyland, and Other Drawings
Matt and I moved to Culver City in February and we love it here. There are a lot of fun little community events, lots of restaurants, and it is very walkable. Some of these drawings are of haul from the Farmer’s market one Tuesday, a Firetruck at a festival for Fire Service Day, and the inside of some cafes.

The other drawings are from mini adventures; hikes, Disneyland, driving around San Marino because I love pretty houses, etc.

painting of produce and baked goods — This is all the stuff we got on our first trip to our local farmer’s market. It all looked so pretty I decided to paint it.

painting of a firetruck — The firehouse near our apartment had an open house for Fire Service day. I went to visit.

sketchbook — Matt and I visited the bar at the Culver Hotel on the night of my birthday.

sketch of the space shuttle endeavour — We went to visit the exhibit at the California Science Center

sketch of a space suit — CA Science Center space exhibit

watercolor painting of a cottage — I like to draw houses. I was trying a new thing where I don’t draw any lines before painting.

painting of a house — This one did not come out as well, I would like to go back and try again.

Waterfall at the end of a fun little hike. I sat and painted it while Matt played in the water.

painting of orchids — Matt got me this for my birthday.

painting of tulips — I bought a bunch of new watercolor pencils (and one watercolor pastel). I tested them out by drawing the same thing with different materials to test out the effects.

I never noticed how detailed the insides of Disneyland giftshops are until I started drawing them.

From life, but does not look much like the person I was drawing.

Impromptu 48 Hr Trip to San Francisco
I was really itching for a mini vacation and specifically craving San Francisco (embarrassingly because I had been binge watching Charmed on Netflix). I realized that I had enough travel points to book us a stay at the Raddison of Fisherman’s Wharf for free, so Matt and I decided to drive up for the weekend. We wanted to explore and relax, take pictures and sketch.

Then, because we are both workaholic planners, we determined exactly the activities we wanted to do, made a map, printed directions, created an itinerary that scheduled us down to the minute, and spent the weekend vacationing with military precision. We severely overdid it have decided to try to try to achieve more of a balance next trip (going to Seattle and Michigan later this month, so we can try that out).

watercolor of Golden Gate at sunrise. — I drove all night for 6 hours. We got to the far side of the bridge at 6:15 am to see the sunrise.

Little sketches of Sausalito, where we at breakfast.

I hate this area, but our hotel was right there…

Renaissance Pleasure Faire
Yep, that the real name of this event. Mel and I try to go every year because it is a great place to draw people in costumes. Also they actually like being drawn! Regular people get really uncomfortable or rigid when they notice you are drawing them. Ren faire people pose or get excited.

Santa Anita Race Track
Going to the race track in the morning is an Easter tradition for Matt and me. Santa Anita is a really pretty race track. We never win anything significant, but the people watching is superb.

Comments · 1

Betsy Oberheim says:

January 27, 2016 at 1:44 pm

I’m using your wonderful mineral drawings for the kids to color at our rock club; really teaching colored pencils; use color families, mix colors and darks and lights!! Your drawings are perfect!! Thanks you so much for sharing!! love your art work!! Betsy

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