I have been getting the ‘on this day ten years ago I drew this’ bug, because it’s a decade since my worryingly over-productive January 2024 set of drawings around Davis (I mean, January was...
https://petescully.com/2024/01/25/walker-hall-ten-years-later/
Last Saturday I was feeling bored of Davis, but not motivated enough to go down to San Francisco for a day of sketching. Then I remembered that it might be interesting to go to old Sacramento and...
https://petescully.com/2023/12/23/engines-of-old-sacramento/
A couple of weekends ago we held our latest Let’s Draw Davis meet of 2024, a small group in Central Park sketching at the Farmer’s Market. It had been a cold week and I was expecting a chilly...
https://petescully.com/2023/12/21/christmas-time-at-the-farmers-market/
The last page of this sketchbook, the last of the Seawhite of Brighton books I picked up in London last year, so on to a new book. This one was “Sketchbook 37” under the new numbering system ...
This is A Street, which is a street in between the university and the downtown. I needed to draw a panorama, so I drew this over the course of two days. Things are starting to feel autumnal. This...
https://petescully.com/2020/11/02/stop-dreaming-of-the-quiet-life/
At the end of the last sketchcrawl we met up at the Carousel in the middle of Central Park, Davis, to look at each others’ sketchbooks. Some people drew the carousel, but I revealed that I had ...
https://petescully.com/2020/11/01/the-flying-carousel-of-the-delta-breeze/
In October 2010 I organized the first in a monthly series of sketchcrawls called “Let’s Draw Davis!”. We met in Central Park in the morning, drew all day, had lunch together, and met up aga...
https://petescully.com/2020/10/31/a-decade-of-lets-draw-davis/
Another downtown lunchtime sketch, or late lunch, I don’t remember now. Lunchtime is just an arbitrary time slot in the day a lot of the time nowadays. This is a bright yellow building, but I...
https://petescully.com/2020/10/31/but-i-know-that-i-will-be-back-right-back-here-with-you/
I’ve been drawing outside a lot lately. Trying to make up for lost time, taking advantage of cooler weather and safer air, getting it in before it gets rainy (haha, ok), and despite the fact th...
I’ve had this Lamy Safari fountain pen for about a year or more I think, I don’t use it very often. I wanted to draw with a fountain pen, but I might need an extra-fine nib to do what I’m u...
https://petescully.com/2020/10/22/wait-a-minute-mister-postman-2/