Octopus in a Bottle

Park Perusal

I really love spending time in Golden Gate Park. Specifically, I love spending time at the museums and the arboretum and the tea garden, which is what I did today. I went through the Gaultier exhibit at the De Young--sorry, no sketches there--and then hit the science museum. Here's two sketches from my wanderings.

Sea Dragons in the Steinhart Aquarium. Little buggers are hard to sketch because they are in a low-light area and swim around, so you have to sketch them one segment at a time. The security guard finally told me it was okay to take a picture as long as I didn't use a flash. (I was so glad, because I've never photographed 'em before, due to the No Photography signs. Turns out iPhone cameras are okay if no flash.)

Detail from the arch area over the amphitheatre on the Music Concourse.

More Sketches

The kitchen lounge area at Gibraltar Point's Artscape Center.

Steps near the hummingbird pool in the Strybing Arboretum.

La-La-La-Lembas!

I like to think that lembas tastes like madeline cookies.

Sketchbook Dump

Finally decanting all my sketches so far from my sketchbook. First, the Bernini Medusa sketches. I took lots of notes too about what visitors were saying, details of the sculpture, details of the room it was in, etc.

Miscellaneous Strybing Arboretum sketches, mostly taken during my walks for the 100 mile challenge.

Academy of Science sketches. The view from the underwater tunnel in the Steinhart Aquarium, branch in a cage, face, rodent skulls....

Dog Skull

From a sketch earlier this year. The California Academy of Sciences has a specimen room where you can sketch or examine things like skulls or shells or insects...etc.

Experiments and Grandma