Sorry, John, I didn't realize you were one of those offshore offload citizens. Maybe you could put your easel on a floating dock shaded with a castoff parasail, which would be sufficiently provocative to get clients to row out in your "Portraits in Ten" dinghy.
I have the shirt from Sausalito (yacht harbor, actually -- I'm one of those who messes around in boats, but Customs does permit me to make landfall, or at least daisy up with others on a hook not far from shore), but what I remember most is the incredible art galleries (though from what you've heard, they may all be Kinkade galleries now). Whatever. Out of my league but fun to wander through.
By the way, regarding smudging as opposed to hatchmarks, you might think of keeping a couple of kneaded erasers handy, one molded to a point and the other to a ridge, so that you can "lift out" a bit from the smudges to create variation in the value shapes, kind of negative hatchmarking. I often put in the hatchmarks and then smudge them together for the effects I want, sort of an opposite tack that leads to the same mark.
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