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San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:52 am
by enrico
We had a wonderful day out in North Beach and Chinatown. Didn't take a tally but we must've had around fifty crawlers out ... great crowd of sketchers!
We didn't realize that the Chinese Mid Autumn Festival was also going on today (time for some moon cake!) so the whole area was sure bustling ... but it made it even more fun ...

I ended up on my own most of the day, but enjoyed getting lost in my thoughts, walk around and draw ... as always it was great to see everyone's drawings at the end of the day!

Here's one of mine from Grant Street in North Beach ... more to come once I take some photos tomorrow ...
Cheers!

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Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:57 am
by crgcas
Another aweome car!
Just stayed in Chinatown a few weeks ago and walked that route quite a few times, great sketching material!

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:29 am
by gustavo
Nice one Enrico

Can't wait to see more from you and others. Any pictures?

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:05 am
by colinadams
Hey sketch crawlers! Today was a great crawl, perfect sunny day with lots of people, and an Italian street festival to draw the crowds. Here are my sketches done in a small sketchbook with a zebra ball point pen, and a brush pen for one of them.

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--Colin Adams

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:08 am
by Thorsten
- Colin, your sketches aren't sketches any more :) Doesn't count in here :)

I really enjoy the card-players and the couple trying on some masks! That's what makes me happy on Sketchcrawls.

Thanks for sharing.

-- Enrico, now pleeeeease get the camera into position soon :) People over here get crazy about UP and they certainly would like to see some of your watercolours, too. Word of mouth is spreading, so how about presenting them in Germany once, too?

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:42 am
by kirs
Today we ended up being tourists more than sketchers: After parking in the Portsmouth garage and seeing a few SketchCrawlers, we went to North Beach looking for the mentioned Italian festival, but first we had lunch @ The Stinking Rose. I like food, it doesn't move:
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Then seeing Coit Tower, we decided to huff it on up there and wandered the ground floor but did not go up (~$5 for adult):
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We also walked to Fishermans' Wharf, visited the Musée Mécanique there, Ghirardelli Square. We returned to Portsmouth Square at the appointed afternoon time, and then we ended up at Kushi Tsuru in Japantown for dinner:
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We also looked around NEW PEOPLE, Shogakukan/VIZ's J-Pop center. It looks like it has interesting films, we may go there in the future.

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:01 am
by 66ahri
nice stuff till now...looking forward to the other crawlers...
--enrico per italianitudine sarebbe gradita una visita sul post di roma :D

cheers

manlio

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:05 am
by Michael Daley
Had a great time!Nice to see old friends and make new ones.

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Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:34 am
by isabel
well done S.Francisco great sketches!

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:56 am
by Thorsten
-- kirs, yummy ;)

--- Michael, I like the laying girls/woman best.

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:14 pm
by Miss B-Movie
I only got 6 or so sketches but these are the better of the group. My friend and I went from the park to Coit Tower, down to the Piers, and back through Little Italy-so we got a lot of distance!
Christopher Columbus statue in front of Coit

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A boat in the docking area behind Pier 39

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Everyone else's are sooo good. It was a fun day!

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:24 pm
by 66ahri
well done san francisco wanna see some more

---michael--- love your style,great lines on your work

manlio

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:20 pm
by marcello
beautiful!

Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:08 pm
by enrico
Here's the days' worth plus a few photos ... my phone ran out of batteries pretty early in the afternoon, so unfortunately only 3 photos ...

Meeting in Portsmouth Square
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A chinatown alley
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Grant street in North beach
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the N-Juda on my way downtown
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Portsmouth square characters
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Grant Street (after a nice latte at Caffe' Trieste)
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A side street in North Beach
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A busy board walk ...
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A building on Waverly
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Scribble of a Chinatown street, looking up the hill ...
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Re: San Francisco CA [Results]

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:05 pm
by mrccrl
Wonderful Sketches San Francisco! Greetings from Rome.
@ Enrico:
le tue cose sono bellissime,le adoro! :mrgreen: Volevo ringraziarti per lo sketchcrawl che organizzi....stai risvegliando le persone e la loro passione qui a Roma. Si torna finalmente a comunicare e a passare insieme una bellissima giornata facendo delle cose bellissime..... grazie ancora! :mrgreen: