Light at San Fransisco is none of your East Coast light

Palace of Fine Arts - Those are supposed to be Dementors

One of two bldgs remaining from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition. 

 same.

Ghirardelli Choco Facto from Hydr St. Pier.

SS Eureka w/ Morgen and Maren on deck. Life saver.

Rope tie-off for ferry

Tug Boat HERCULES

 SS Eureka Anchor

 The Utah

Knot of some sort on deck of SS Baraclutha

Alcatraz Island from shore.

Alioto - Lazio Crab - one of 2 remaining crabbers on Fisherman's Wharf.

some bridge.

Piedmont - Men's drag shop on Haight

Jimi painting on the side of his "Red House' in Haight/Ashbury

Fisherman's wharf Sign

Crab sculpture at Pier 39 entry

 Philadelphia streetcar on San Fransisco - they restore, operate, and maintain streetcars from around the world.

Pier 43?  I heard this was originally built for a big PR thing when Capone went to Alcatraz.

The Changing Light

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919

The changing light
                 at San Francisco
       is none of your East Coast light
                none of your
                            pearly light of Paris
The light of San Francisco
                        is a sea light
                                       an island light
And the light of fog
                   blanketing the hills
          drifting in at night
                      through the Golden Gate
                                       to lie on the city at dawn
And then the halcyon late mornings
       after the fog burns off
            and the sun paints white houses
                                    with the sea light of Greece
                 with sharp clean shadows 
                       making the town look like
                                it had just been painted

But the wind comes up at four o’clock
                                     sweeping the hills

And then the veil of light of early evening

And then another scrim
                  when the new night fog
                                        floats in
And in that vale of light
                      the city drifts
                                    anchorless upon the ocean

MOANA - You Don't Swing Your Hammer Like You Used To, Man...

I'm SHINY!  

Daniel Smith WC's on Arches WC paper.  Got a little dab

On the boards...

YouTUBE video...This isn't how I draw or a process I recommend but fun to watch someone else's take on the unDrab Crab...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6pmQUpbXBQ

We're All Mad Here - Cool Cat Chris Edition

I never get involved in politics....

WC on Watercolor paper:

Copic on Pentalic 110# Smooth:

A Mighty Woman With a Torch

“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.

From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

INKTOBER - The End - It's Over - Like Roy Orbison over, Oooooooohhver - Mr. Toad rigged the election...

Yeah, I'm a few drawings short.  I'm trying to forgive myself. I'm putting the finishing touches on the kids Fall Carnival at school...If you don't volunteer at your kids school YOU are a turd.  Make time, not excuses...Yet.

INKTOBER - Days 25,26,27 - Stank Fish Attract Crabs. Nasty Ain't Nothin New to Me

I started with the best intentions to try and give some "true" color to these crabbies,  Dungeness-ish.  But I only have one purple marker.  I also believe some subconscious level interjected control over the color mixing --The Seahawks are playing in New Orleans this week!  Mardi Gras Crabs!  

Crab is delicious.  Even friendly crab.

Study/Sketch and larger edition - what a difference quality paper can make on the blending! 

Detail...

Yes, we crab!!!! not a keeper....

Bait. Stomp those heads and release the juice.  Stop and smell what the sun has baked you....

...and a Mummy,  I went to Egypt in 2000.  So I'm an expert...

was going to have the wraps write my name in the sky but, you know, laziness....

INKTOBER: 23,24- I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Where the yellow-crown’d heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs, 

Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon, 

Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well, 

Meet Cecil. 

Booger Butt