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5/19/18 Alameda |
I’m
back from a week in northern California! The main event of our trip south was
to visit Yosemite National Park, but we began with a couple of days in the San
Francisco Bay Area visiting family and friends. Thanks to a recommendation from
Berkeley sketcher Cathy McAuliffe, we
discovered a place to stay that was completely new to us: the island town of Alameda just south of Oakland.
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5/19/18 Alameda |
Known
for its Victorian architecture, Alameda is a sketcher and photographer’s dream.
While Greg snapped away, Cathy and I sketched several colorful and intricately
detailed houses. Walking around a neighborhood that was particularly rich in
historic buildings, we had difficulty choosing from all the eye candy, no
matter which way we turned. (Although I hadn’t planned this at all, my current
series of Maple Leaf architectural sketches turned out to be ideal practice for Alameda. If I hadn’t done all
those houses in my own ‘hood recently, I think I would have been much more intimidated
by the Victorians and would have had a harder time getting started.)
On
our last morning before packing up for Yosemite, I sketched an oddly pruned
tree right outside our Airbnb house that had caught my eye the first moment I
spotted it. Although no utility wires were in sight, it looked like it had been
cut away for some.
Many
thanks to Cathy for sketching with me and giving us a grand tour of Alameda!
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5/19/18 Alameda Theatre in downtown Alameda |
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5/20/18 Not Victorian, but still a very cool house! |
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5/21/18 An interesting tree near our Airbnb house |
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Happy sketchers in a dream neighborhood! (Photo by Greg) |
Love the houses and the theatre too!!! Nice work!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I could have sketched in that neighborhood for weeks and weeks and never run out of houses to draw!! So much fun!
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