Ha! Shadows can be so much fun – something not really there which is visible! In this case, the Carquinez Bridge provided the structure to obstruct the sun. This bridge is composed of an old trestle-ish looking bridge for going North, and the new graceful Southward bridge. I might add a few more pencil lines.
A workshop with Leslie Wilson inspired me to try watercolor without pen and ink. A beautiful day at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, you almost couldn’t pick anything not beautiful or peaceful.
It starts tonight, and goes through Sunday.
We’ve gotten a bunch of media coverage in local papers around the East Bay and beyond. I think this is going to be a fun event. Event website http://wcuskskcrawl.blogspot.com/
One of our members wrote a review, http://oak.lc/jM6ms and here’s one from the BerkeleySide http://bit.ly/1azZTmr
This Saturday the local Urban Sketchers group, of which I am a member, will be doing a talk and demo of our sketching kits at the main branch of the Oakland Public Library at Lake Merritt from 3 – 5 pm.
The following weekend, the 1st Annual West Coast Sketchcrawl will be happening in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Oakland.
Our talented member Carrie McLish, who is also a journalist, wrote about them in Oakland Local. Read more about both events 
Micaela Marsden 