With the tenets upstairs moved out for Italy I used the opportunity to sketch the view from the empty upstairs east facing bedroom.

Now this isn’t exactly sketching out my back door but the sketching above my back door. With the altitude gain I could see the landmark that dominates the view: Sutro Tower.

Sutro Tower was erected between 1971 and 1973. For 45 years the 977 foot tall radio and television transmission tower was the tallest structure in San Francisco before it was usurped by the Salesforce Tower (1,070 feet) in 2018.

In the foreground are the houses that border my backyard, in the middle ground are the houses of the Golden Gate Heights.

I used my Stillman & Birn panoramic watercolor journal to sketch in the scene. I used a thick pen (Micron 10) and rendered the scene in a continuous-line.

My sketch was loose and not exactly to scale but that what makes continuous-line sketching so exciting and vibrant.