Quiet time

At the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

Steak sauce

One of the items that came with our rented apartment.

Not sure why I painted it…

This is making me think of juicy steak, and I am getting hungry…

San Diego

I spent a few days in San Diego. It was a short but fun trip.

I went to the Botanical Building in Balboa Park. The next photo is taken from inside the building.

Weekend Reflections 

Nice looking  up inside the building

One of my favourite photos, taken outside a kite shop

Happy Weekend.

More sketches in California

We were in sunny Palo Alto (about an hour south of San Francisco) for a couple of weeks. It was sunny everyday – perfect for sketching outdoors.

Along the Embarcadero in San Francisco. These plants belong to a restaurant. There are always many people along the Embarcadero, including tourists.

Further south along the Embarcadero, I spotted this lovely building across the road.

Wishing you a wonderful week.

Hong Kong desserts

Whenever I think of Hong Kong, I think of yummy desserts. Mirrored surfaces increase the number of these perfect looking pieces… These remind me of Japanese desserts.

Visit James at Weekend Reflections for more.

Not quite a Hong Kong dessert, but it is a photo taken in Hong Kong. You can see my blurry reflection in the photo. Had fun, until I was told off for taking photos of their lovely food.

More desserts…

But as if that’s not enough, there’s even more at the other end of the plate

This is a very smooth milky custard (like a panna cotta)

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Mango pudding… Yummy.

Have a happy weekend.

People sketches

I brought my iPAD to breakfast this morning. While waiting for a table, I quickly sketched a man in front of me.

It was getting addictive…  I sketched Jeremy at home, on the iPAD. He doesn’t like many of my pieces of him, but he likes this :).

Still life on the iPad

I was given a 2nd hand iPad recently, when my husband bought himself a new one. I have been  painting – it’s a lot of fun, and it’s clean!  I have forgotten how much fun it is to paint digitally. The downside is that I have to watch my posture, to avoid getting a sore back.

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Sketch

My first drawing in San Francisco, on a lovely sunny afternoon.

Under the bridge… and scroll to the next photo to see where the beams/poles end.

Here the poles are bolted into the wall below the bridge. When we first arrived and was driving around, I noticed these poles and thought they were interesting…. I guess it’s because I’ve never been under many bridges before.

Visit Sunday Bridges - Louis has uploaded a photo of this bridge.

San Francisco sketches

 

I use public transport  a lot in San Francisco. It’s convenient, and an inexpensive way to get around.

 

This is the Ferry Building in San Francisco, which I go to quite a bit. It has a lots of yummy food, and on weekends, a farmers’ market.

Buffet table

While travelling, we were staying at the same hotel for a while, and the hotel breakfast was becoming boring. So I decided to have some fun – it made breakfast pass quickly, but the food still tasted the same…

Purple beauty (Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco)

I mean the flowers, and not the man (although it’s very kind of him to wear purple for my photo :D )

Happy Watery Wednesday.

Coloured sketches

2 sketches; I was using a concertina sketchbook hence the sketches sort-of got squashed into any available space…

The top left is a drawing by the pool. And the bottom, which I enjoyed more, a scaffolding and tube (don’t know the right term) for building materials… 

There is something about drawing and painting plants that I find appealing

Plants with bags of soil by the side

Finally, some potted plants.

Have a nice week.