Magical Sketchcrawl

Yours Truly doing a Yoga Pose in a Public Place ~ Queen Califia Magical Circle. 

 Queen Califia Magical Circle in Escondido, California

Our wonderful San Diego Sketchcrawl group got together recently at Queen Califia Magical Circle. It's a sculpture garden created by the renowned Niki de Saint Phalle. It's recently reopened in Kit Carson Park in Escondido, California. It's hidden away, and open very limited hours. But as you can see, well worth a visit!

Close up of one of the many many sculptures at  Queen Califia Magical Circle.  ~ by Jane LaFazio

From my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

From my sketchbook (detail) ~ by Jane LaFazio

From my sketchbook (detail) ~ by Jane LaFazio

close up of one of the sculptures ~ by Jane LaFazio

The center sculpture at Queen Califia Magical Circle ~ by Jane LaFazio

selfie ~ by Jane LaFazio

San Diego Sketchcrawlers at Queen Califia Magical Circle

from my sketchbook ~ at the Natural History Museum

sketchbook page in progress ~ Jane LaFazio

Last weekend, Our San Diego Sketchcrawl group met at the San Diego Natural History Museum for a sketchcrawl. We met at the skull exhibition. It was a great place to draw!

Husband working on his sketchbook

sketchbook page in progress ~ Jane LaFazio

Some of the gang at San Diego Natural History Museum 

San Diego Sketchcrawlers at lunch show and tell

A while back, I wrote about our sketchcrawl group on The Sketchbook Challenge blog here, with some ideas on you your can start your own group. (You can join our San Diego group, if you live nearby!)

sketchbook detail ~ Jane LaFazio

sketchbook detail ~ Jane LaFazio

sketchbook detail ~ Jane LaFazio

sketchbook detail ~ Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ Jane LaFazio

sketchbook detail ~ Jane LaFazio

April Sketchcrawl

 
Our wonderful San Diego Sketchcrawl group met this month, at Susie & Chris Clark's garden. I didn't get the chance to draw all these gorgeous flowers (and pet tortoise) so I photographed them.

Just part of Susie and Chris' garden.

Our group always gathers around 12:30 for lunch and to share our journals from that morning's sketching.

Watercolor in Italy ~ May 2012

These are photos that I took last year, during my workshop in Orvieto, Italy. You can see all the photos here.

I'll be teaching in Orivieto again, in May 2012. As you can imagine, I'm looking forward to it!  I'll be teaching "Bella Italia: Orvieto Sketchbook" and we'll sketching and watercoloring and cooking and wine tasting for one glorious week! Join me! Seven are registered now--only 3 spaces left!

And the winner of Jill K. Berry's book "Personal Geographies" is Vee!! Email me with your mailing address! congrats!

Bella Italia: Orvieto Sketchbook

A page from my mixed media journal (Strathmore Visual Journal for Mixed Media 9x12")






Notice the Italian book page in the background.



I'm getting excited about my week long workshop Bella Italia: Orvieto Sketchbook in  Orvieto, Italy in May 2012. Join me! I'll be teaching Sketching and Watercolor: Journal Style. Oh, and we'll have time for wine tasting, cooking, sight seeing...

Orvieto, Italy

(Photo by Bill Steiner)
Ah, Orvieto! My workshop, Bella Italia: Orvieto Sketchbook is May 20-26. We've got 6 registered so far, with a maximum of 10. I've been lucky enough to teach in Orvieto once before and it was divine. You can see the photos of my 2010 workshop here. Hope you can join us.

Farmer Market ~ Golden Hill

Straight to ink sketches on a page prepared with stencils and color in my Strathmore Visual Journal for Mixed Media.









Some members of our wonderful San Diego SketchCrawl group spent a day at the Farmers Market in Golden Hill.







If sketching & watercolor with friends at San Diego farmers markets are so much fun, can you imagine how fun it will be in my week long workshops in Orvieto, Italy and Nice, France next year!