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Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-87505617261545036222017-07-12T20:03:00.001-07:002017-07-12T20:03:20.082-07:00Pterror of the Pterosaurs!I've been looking forward to the traveling <b>Pterosaurs</b> exhibit at the <a href="http://calacademy.org/">Academy of Sciences</a> all year! And indeed, it was so pteriffic that it's taken me three visits to draw all the wingtastic displays.<br />
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Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-59198368712162228392017-03-06T17:15:00.001-08:002017-03-06T17:15:41.911-08:00Dinosaur Class at the UCMPThis past weekend, I attended a special "short course" at the <a href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/">University of California Museum of Paleontology</a> in Berkeley. This was basically a day-long program of presentations on recent dinosaur research, so basically the most awesome school day ever! Naturally I took notes; any scientific or terminology errors are entirely my fault.<br />
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So we end on a mystery, and the dino-romance continues! On the way out I stopped to sketch some Triceratops skulls in the museum library. I think I like the exploded diagram approach...<br />
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Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-2183402882928234692017-03-05T13:55:00.001-08:002017-03-06T07:34:31.582-08:00New York, New YorkMy wife and I made a quick visit to New York City back in January, which involved a lot of museum-going. Some highlights...<br />
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<b>January 18, 2017:</b> The <a href="http://www.amnh.org/">American Museum of Natural History</a>. The refurbished dioramas were incredible, but I only had a couple of hours to draw, so all you're getting is fossils.<br />
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<b>January 20, 2017: </b>We walked the <a href="http://www.thehighline.org/">Highline</a>, an abandoned freight railway that's been converted into a lovely elevated public park, then made our way over to the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>. There were a bunch of nice folks from the <a href="http://www.92y.org/">92nd Street Y</a> sketching in a sculpture court, but that armor collection was calling to me...<br />
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<b>January 21, 2017:</b> And here are a few from the post-inauguration Women's March in New York. We watched for a bit on Fifth Avenue, got an aerial view from the Rockefeller Center, then staked out the finish line at Trump Tower.<br />
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<b>January 22, 2017:</b> To wrap things up, we finally left Manhattan and visited the <a href="https://bronxzoo.com/">Bronx Zoo</a>. Here's a sampling of the fraction of the zoo we were able to explore...<br />
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Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-43395468010196469322017-03-04T21:52:00.000-08:002017-03-04T21:52:53.443-08:00SF Zoo: The Mega Catchup Part 2And now to finish clearing out my backlog of animal drawings from Bay Area establishments! Here's the last four months' worth of <a href="http://www.sfzoo.org/">San Francisco Zoo</a> sketching.<br />
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<b>October 31, 2016:</b> For Halloween, I went to the zoo with Sarah Barrie Fenton and her animation students. My theme this time was <i>bugs bugs bugs</i>, whether giant sculptures, pinned specimens, or living cuties.<br />
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<b>November 5, 2016:</b> This time I tried to complete Sarah's scavenger hunt, although I didn't get very far - I kept getting distracted by critters that weren't on the list, or (in at least one case) weren't even supposed to be at the zoo.<br />
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<b>January 5, 2017:</b> National Bird Day! Instead of exotic avians, I ended up making close studies of ducks and turkeys. Plus a completely bizarre arachnid, and a speed round of monochrome critters...<br />
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<b>March 1, 2017: </b>Another group outing with Emma Burns and Ian Grabinski. This time, less fancy painting, and more structural studies of bears and sea lions and such. Plus a rare sloth action sequence and the surprising Best Of The Day!<br />
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Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-66226014991958958862017-03-04T21:40:00.002-08:002017-03-05T14:00:06.161-08:00At the Academy of SciencesSince I live virtually next door to the <a href="http://calacademy.org/">California Academy of Sciences</a>, I've been visiting it pretty often, even if it's just to admire Claude the albino alligator.<br />
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<b>August 26, 2016: </b>Here's ace nature illustrator Terri Nelson drawing Antarctic isopods in the Academy lab. Plus a couple quick taxidermy studies from the Naturalist Center, because I'm obsessed with bird feet...<br />
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<b>October 1, 2016:</b> A quick round of African taxidermy to warm up for the Safari West fundraiser drawings.<br />
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<b>December 21, 2016:</b> An emergency one-hour trip to admire the caribou and stoke my penguin obsession!<br />
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<b>February 19, 2017:</b> Another research expedition. I'm sculpting Claude for a class, so I needed to study his scale patterns. But there are always a lot of other distractions!<br />
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Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-67938428047939658082017-03-04T21:25:00.001-08:002017-03-05T14:00:50.685-08:00Return to OZI don't get over to the <a href="http://www.oaklandzoo.org/">Oakland Zoo</a> as often, but I have a couple of trips' worth of drawings saved up from there as well.<br />
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<b>August 3, 2016:</b> A nice day out with fellow artists Ben Jelter and Alexa Dunham! The baboons put on a great show for us.<br />
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<b>February 22, 2017:</b> Finally, a break in the rainy weather! I needed to practice camels, I wanted to draw elephants in memory of Judi Reynolds, and I did some tigers since I'd been discussing them with George Cwirko Godycki. But if I had my druthers, I'd be happy to draw hyenas all day long...<br />
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Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-42361662659952324982017-03-04T21:15:00.003-08:002017-03-04T21:15:57.329-08:00SF Zoo: The Mega Catchup Part 1I have almost nine months' worth of <a href="http://www.sfzoo.org/">San Francisco Zoo</a> drawings that I never got around to posting here. I think I'd better break this up into a couple of installments...<br />
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<b>June 16, 2016: </b>I'd been pretty busy with my teaching courseload and a big pile of freelance work, but there was a baby anteater to admire!<br />
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<b>July 29, 2016: </b>For Global Tiger Day I learned how to tell tigers apart, said hello to Boone the rhino, and checked in on the anteater family.</div>
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<b>July 30, 2016: </b>March of the Penguins! Two chicks returned from Fish School to rejoin the penguin commune, and people lined up eagerly along the parade route for photo ops.<br />
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Inti the bobcat gave me a good drawing availability, and I witnessed the new spectacle of a peccary mudbath.<br /><br />
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According to keeper Sandy Huang, Leanne the tiger is the loveliest animal in the world, but Kachina is the most adorable.<br />
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Every month, <a href="http://johnmuirlaws.com/">John Muir Laws</a> organizes a sketching field trip for the SF Bay Area's Nature Journal Club. This time, thanks to an errant weather forecast, he ended up moving it indoors and we checked out the recently renovated Galley of California Natural Sciences at the <a href="http://museumca.org/">Oakland Museum of California</a>. Dioramas galore!</div>
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First we had to run the gantlet of admission. It happened to be the final day of the museum's "Black Panthers at 50" exhibit, and the crowd was immense!<br />
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And then, the exhibits. The gallery is organized into seven different California regions, and I attempted to document them all! No color media are permitted in the gallery, so welcome to my monochrome wonderland.</div>
Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-5643622324570215292017-02-05T17:18:00.001-08:002017-02-05T17:18:47.025-08:00No Ban No Wall Rally, 02/04/2017As usual, I have a ton of art stuff to catch up on posting here. Just for variety, I'll go backwards from the most recent batch. Here are some sketches from the recent "No Ban No Wall" rally in San Francisco's Civic Center plaza...<br />
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Warming up with Laurie and friends before the rally. This is how us sketchers limber up!<br />
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Some scene-setting crowd shots. The giant lanterns are an installation by Hong Kong artist Freeman Lau for Chinese New Year. <br />
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Getting a bit more up close and personal as the rally winds up. I think these kinds of rallies aren't as lively as marches, because you're basically just standing around listening to people speechify, but it's always interesting to observe the mix of attendees and their homemade signs.Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-27130682426011315012016-10-24T02:08:00.005-07:002017-03-04T19:34:07.536-08:00The Witching HourOne more for this batch: My haul from the Academy of Art's twice-annual <b>Costume Carnival</b>. This was the last one masterminded by the Illustration department's amazing model coordinator Sarafina, so it was kind of a special occasion.<br />
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An introductory warmup. These are all on 25x30 Post-It Note sheets, incidentally.<br />
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Bringing in some watercolor. The acrylic paint pens I was using for the background took some fussing to get everything nicely blended.<br />
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In hindsight, I need to pay more attention to arm proportions on these big drawings. Turns out it's hard to get everything sized properly when you can't see the whole figure at once!<br />
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And the end! A lot of the other artists at the event ended up as damned guest sinners in this one.</div>
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De Brazza's monkeys...<br />
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Sable antelopes...<br />
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Cheetahs and a striped hyena...<br />
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And beautiful white rhinos.<br />
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The finished and framed drawings, ready to ship out.Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-42826991878159041932016-10-24T01:55:00.002-07:002016-10-24T01:56:06.767-07:00Stow Lake PerspectivesAs usual, when I get busy, I fall behind on updating this art blog. Let's start catching up with some location drawings from <b>Stow Lake</b> in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, one of my favorite nearby nature haunts. I drew these as perspective examples for a guest class I recently taught for the wonderful <a href="http://johnmuirlaws.com/">John Muir Laws</a>.<br />
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The evening culminated in the reanimation of a huge "extinct" Strandbeest. It honestly did feel a little bit occult!<br />
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And here's one last beast for the road, courtesy of the <a href="http://calacademy.org/">Academy of Sciences</a>.Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-50973586116317452542016-07-20T01:28:00.003-07:002016-07-20T01:31:21.148-07:00Oakland Zoo: Summer SolsticeAfter wrapping up my spring teaching duties and finishing up a huge pile of freelance work, I had a little room in my schedule to get over to the <b>Oakland Zoo</b> for the first time in about a year...<br />
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My photographer buddy Grace and I were especially keen to see the baby warthogs, and they were everything we could have hoped for!<br />
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The baboons were hanging back a ways, so these are really just loose impressions rather than detailed likenesses.<br />
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I keep meaning to draw the hyenas, so that's one thing off my bucket list! The camels continue to elude my pen, however.<br />
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And of course I had to visit my beloved sun bears. <br />
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I went back a couple of days later, and ended up drawing a lot of the same critters I drew last year. I'm so predictable.<br />
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So sue me, I can't get enough of those giant tortoises.<br />
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The gibbons are always reliably entertaining. I love the way the male perches in the treetops and regally surveys his domain. <br />
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The ever-popular trio of lady elephants. It's fun trying to capture their very distinctive individual likenesses.<br />
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Loitering after closing time, I jotted down a very quick scribble of the charismatic male warthog.Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-12174265302548255582016-07-20T01:12:00.000-07:002016-07-20T01:12:53.382-07:00SF Zoo: Winter FrolicsStepping back in time to February, let's clear out a little backlog of <b>San Francisco Zoo</b> sketches from earlier in the year.<br />
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Because nothing says "Be My Valentine" like a posse of peccaries.<br />
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I finally persuaded a pelican to pose for me.<br />
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And a quick impression of the wiggly, hyperactive little patas monkey.<br />
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A couple of weeks later came International Polar Bear Day, and Uulu's outdoor space was enriched with ten tons of artificial snow for the occasion.<br />
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Awwww. What a sweetie!<br />
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From snow to sauna. It's always a bit of an endurance test sketching in the hot, humid tropical aviary.<br />
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Then I doubled back to the African exhibits near the entrance. Especially happy with that stork...<br />
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Then I tried covering an entire chalkboard with paper, giving me an image area of about 60x45 inches.<br />
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For the school's twice-annual <b>Costume Carnival</b>, I tried using a bunch of acrylic paint pens on individual 25x30 sheets.<br />
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The next logical step was full color on a 60x45 canvas, which ended up taking ages - I had to stay a couple hours after class to finish this one up.<br />
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So the last couple weeks, I've gone with either smaller canvases or less color.<br />
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One way or another, I'm going to try to keep working big. It's challenging, but a lot of fun!Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-48268026407628734772016-04-03T10:55:00.005-07:002016-04-03T10:55:55.859-07:00Muse Workshop, 03/05/2016<br />
About a month ago, the Academy of Art's Illustration department hosted a special weekend workshop with costumed models. Model coordinator Sarafina always comes up with clever themes for these events, and this one was a celebration of artist's models through the ages.<br />
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That's Sarafina herself as a Toulouse Lautrec-style <i>demimondaine</i>. <br />
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And animation instructor <a href="https://zealousceles.carbonmade.com/">Sarah Barrie Fenton</a> achieving her lifelong dream of becoming a Mucha-style Art Nouveau goddess. Other setups paid homage to Josephine Baker, Audrey Munson, and Virginie Gautreau (Sargent's scandalous "Madame X").<br />
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I switched to acrylics for the last couple of pinup-style poses. <br />
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Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-64795983191489876812016-04-03T10:43:00.003-07:002016-04-03T10:44:32.078-07:00At the Asian Art MuseumEarlier this year, San Francisco's <a href="http://www.asianart.org/">Asian Art Museum</a> had a great exhibit called "Looking East," which traced the influence of Japanese arts and crafts on Western arts in the later part of the 19th Century. Lots and lots of Japanese ceramics, woodcut prints, etc, plus a lot of prints and paintings by Western celebs like Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, and Otto Eckmann. I ended up taking a lot of notes...<br />
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There was too much to cover in one day, so I had to go back later and complete the survey.<br />
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There's always lots of cool stuff in the permanent collection, too. I always love the gallery of Ganeshas at the entryway. <br />
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Back in January, my wife and I set off to <b>Hong Kong</b> to visit my excellent great aunt Nguyet. We haven't been world-traveling in years, so there was a bit of a learning curve!</div>
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We met Aunt Nguyet for a luxurious lunch, and then wandered around downtown Kowloon in the rain.<br />
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We were staying at a hotel in Mong Kok, and got pretty familiar with the surrounding area.<br />
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We visited Sai Kung with my aunt and her friend Phuong, lunching at a choose-your-own seafood restaurant and then shopping for some new year's flowers.<br />
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Afterwards, Phuong took us to a lovely flower garden next to the Chi Lin Nunnery, where I was kicked out for "making pictures" without a permit.<br />
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Phuong and Marc even invited us to dinner at their lovely place on Victoria Peak. I documented these delicious cheeses for posterity.<br />
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By this point, it had begun raining pretty much nonstop. We took shelter at a temple in Yau Ma Tei, where the rainwater poured in through the open roof.<br />
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Museums are always a good fallback for rainy days. I was particularly keen to visit the science museum, since I couldn't visit China without seeing some fossils.<br />
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The next day, Phuong and Marc took us to Lantau Island, where we rode the glass-bottom cable car up to the mountain peak to see the Po Lin Monastery and the famous Big Buddha.<br />
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The day after, Yuichi Endo of Sunrise took us around Hong Kong Island. This turned out to be the coldest day in Hong Kong in six decades, but officially we were just seeing "frozen rain" rather than actual snow.<br />
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A couple of final memories: Yummy congee at the Fa Yuen cooked food center, a quick pub stop in the Soho district, and a parting view out our hotel room window.<br />
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Goodbye for now, Hong Kong! We'll be back to draw everything else!<br />
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January 9, 2016: A visit to the lovely <a href="http://guardiansofthecity.org/sffd/">San Francisco Fire Department Museum</a>.<br />
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February 7, 2016: At the <a href="https://www.sfspca.org/">San Francisco SPCA</a> in Mission Bay.<br />
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February 20, 2016: Drawing the floats and marchers setting up for San Francisco's annual Chinese New Year parade.Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-88195279609626802962016-03-21T20:51:00.000-07:002016-03-21T20:52:44.716-07:00Science StuffAs usual, I have a backlog of unposted drawings to share. Let's catch up! I'll start with a few items of scientific interest.<br />
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From September 2015: the second batch of native Western Pond Turtles are released at Mountain Lake Park.<br />
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November 2015: A final visit to the Whales exhibit at the <a href="http://www.calacademy.org/">California Academy of Sciences</a>.<br />
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Speaking of skeletons: Back in October, we went to Michigan to visit family and preview the Haunted Barn at Turk Lake's <a href="http://www.thetoppershop.com/">Topper Shop</a>. On the way back, I discovered that Chicago O'Hare airport has a life-size Brachiosaurus skeleton replica. What a way to spend a layover!Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-87081003275753834492016-02-04T00:43:00.001-08:002016-02-04T00:43:25.216-08:00Fantastic Figure FolliesJust started the spring semester at the Academy of Art, and I have a pretty full teaching schedule this time around. Fortunately, the lineup includes the <b>Fantastic Figure</b> drawing class I taught last fall, which was a complete blast. While I'm thinking of it, here are some of my favorite in-class demo drawings from the fall semester.<br />
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After years of illustration training, it's oddly thrilling to break the taboo and deliberately draw a head in flat profile view. <br />
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Spooky Halloween horror day. We turned down the lights and told each other scary stories. :-) <br />
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We had a great time drawing human-animal hybrids, and I did some infodump lectures on the general principles of critter anatomy. <br />
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There was a Krampus day, naturally! <br />
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The incomparable <a href="http://zealousceles.tumblr.com/">Sarah Barrie Fenton</a> took over my class for the afternoon to show us how they rock it over in the animation department.<br />
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And on the last day, we had imaginary monkeys. It's my class so we can do things like that. :-)</div>
Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-56725107309932201302015-12-11T12:04:00.004-08:002015-12-11T12:05:54.860-08:00AAU Workshops, Fall 2015I've been teaching at the <b>Academy of Art</b> again, and it's been taking up quite a lot of my time. On the plus side, I have a nice backlog of demos and workshop drawings to share! Let's start off with a couple of recent figure-drawing events masterminded by the Illustration department's magical model coordinator Sarafina.<br />
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Back in November we had the twice-annual <b>Costume Carnival</b> event. The theme for this one was a beastly ball populated by human-animal hybrids...</div>
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Just last week, the <b>Drawing Mode</b> workshop gave the Illustration peeps a chance to draw some of the groovy clothing created by the Fashion department. I did a couple of big montages, one of which I gave to Sarafina, plus a bunch of little crayon sketches on construction paper. How kindergarten1<br />
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Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1820473319507920649.post-48201983225025353152015-11-07T12:07:00.002-08:002015-11-07T12:08:47.144-08:00SF Zoo: Fall FavoritesIt's been ages since I've posted a roundup of <b>San Francisco Zoo</b> sketches, and it looks like I've accumulated quite a backlog. So with no further ado, here are some highlights from the last couple of months...<br />
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Big cats ahoy! Here are an Amur tiger shredding a tasty cardboard box, and a snoozing snow leopard.<br />
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A couple of my favorite critters: The elderly Uulu and her colorful past, and puppyish young Boone being introduced to his prototype snack-ball.<br />
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I'm also gradually adding to my graphic record of the zoo's recently installed sculpture garden. Above, a rough scale lineup of the (mostly) life-size sculptures.<br />
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And finally, a record of the Halloween-themed "Spooky Specimens" guided tour, part of the annual "Boo at the Zoo" festivities. Collect all seven lemurs!Mark Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15707254801998495553noreply@blogger.com0