International break is finally over, and a new season of the Premier League starts this weekend. Tottenham start alphabetically last.
Pete Scully
@petescully.bsky.social
Davis California. Urban Sketcher. Originally from Burnt Oak in London, but I left ages ago.
Got a few compliments on my old Roma shirt today. Even met a guy from Rome, turns out he went to the Spurs Roma game I went to a couple of years ago. He had a Totti tattoo (fun to say)
Also out sketching the Davis Farmers Market again, it’s well hot today. Start of October, heatwave.
Out sketching the Davis community church this morning doing thumbnails for a possible bigger drawing.
Apparently this old house (1905) on 3rd st is gonna be demolished, apparently not in good nick, but that’s a shame because I like to draw it.
I really love drawing. If it is not obvious! Stopped into Three Mile in Davis after the Pence Gallery Art Auction, both pieces sold, celebrating with a pint of “Arnold Schwarzenlager”. It’s a good week, first week of the quarter, and our dept got a historic name change approved. Busy next week!
Today marks ten years to the day since the UC Davis Pitzer Center opened its new doors for the opening concert by the Music faculty and students, I had drawn the buildings progress from when the Boiler Building stood there before, to the new recital hall going up. Ten years ago now, wow.
After work yesterday I went down to the Shields Oak Grove in the UCD Arboretum, a place I’ve really not explored before, in 21 years. It was just beautiful. Started a new sketchbook.
It’s the first day of classes at #ucdavis! I was out at lunchtime by the roundabout next to the Silo, where loads of people were gathered to, as per tradition, yell at people for not wearing helmets or going too fast, and cheer people for wearing helmets and riding safely. Had to sketch it.
Two sketches I did yesterday during the Let’s Draw Davis meetup on D St
Sketchcrawl today at 10:30, will be a nice morning for sketching.
Pete Scully@petescully.bsky.social · last mo.Let’s Draw Davis on September 19, meet at 10:30am on D St next to the ref phone box (outside cloud forest cafe), and we will sketch that area for a couple of hours before coming back together to look at our sketchbooks. Hope to see you there, Davis area sketchers!
Oh I have a good idea, get up at 5am to watch Spurs against Villa, oh we are losing already and we have still scored still ZERO GOALS… it is almost hilarious at this point. I think football is broken for me.
Up early to watch Lando Norris get pole in F1 qualifying, then had a 4 mile run. Now to watch Spurs huff and puff.
Ok come on now Spurs. Spent all that dough, let’s score a goal, eh? Also why are Everton wearing that awful kit?
The Pence Gallery annual art auction just opened and they hosted the ArtAbout reception tonight. Auction closes in two weeks! (Both my pieces, drawings from Richmond, have sold already though! Always a nice feeling). Some really lovely art in the Pence this year.
Ah, sad tree news. The big Siberian Elm near the South Silo on the UC Davis campus, the big tall one that was leaning over a lot, was finally hit down, I saw today. I had drawn it a lot over the years and was hoping to sketch it again, but not to be. Goodbye old friend.
An old English Elm, planted in 1906, 99 years before I arrived in Davis, on 3rd St. & it’s an official Landmark Tree, there is a list of them on the City website. Maybe I will draw them all.
Resting my legs after the 10k Labor Day Run this morning, I really liked that route in South Davis, some places I’ve not gone to in a few years. Happy with the time, not worrying about beating past times now.
Another bad decision to stay in and watch Spurs, at least we didn’t lose, but could we maybe score a goal at some point this season?
Did a sketch on F St today, taking a break from trees (though there are trees in this scene) Davis CA
Let’s Draw Davis on September 19, meet at 10:30am on D St next to the ref phone box (outside cloud forest cafe), and we will sketch that area for a couple of hours before coming back together to look at our sketchbooks. Hope to see you there, Davis area sketchers!
Another tree, I think it’s a Chinese Elm, on the North Davis Greenbelt today.
I got up and ran over four and a half, maybe five miles this morning, I don’t know exactly cos my silly watch died again shortly into the run. Still, good practice for next weeks 10k Labor Day Run.
Another tree, this one’s downtown on 3rd St, it’s a century old male (so I was told) Carob tree, near Newsbeat. I always liked this one, today I learned that it’s as old as (maybe older than) downtown itself.
