This was at a local government meeting here recognizing volunteers to help keep the city clean. I looked up and thought it was an interesting composition with the people leaning this way and that way and the ficas tree in the middle.
I just realized my last post was a sketch during a meeting too — well I guess you know what I do during meetings now.
From a recent outdoor meeting.
Joan and my Sis stopped in a shop to pick up some clothes, so I lingered in the doorway to sketch. The sketch above is from looking straight up the street from the shop. The sketch below is of an elderly crossing guard directly in front of the shop.
She had a grandmotherly vibe about her, seemed to emanate sweetness. My sister explained that it’s her job to help little kids cross the busy street. I’ve lived nearly half a century in Los Angeles, so for me it was fun and exotic to visit such a differently laid-out place, and a place with so much history too…
Last week I went out to NY to meet up with my wife who was attending the National Art Education Association (NAEA) conference. It was great. My sister showed us around her neighborhood in the West Village. She took us to the famous White Horse Tavern where I made these sketches from where I was seated in the bar. I’ve been experimenting lately with making a bunch of little sketches from one vantage point to see what (hopefully) interesting little compositions I can find…
I kind of liked the weird fish-eye effect on the monitor. It was also nice that I just happened to have a giant arrow over my head…
This is from the last time I watered our plot a couple days back. I realized I have a few sketches I’ve made from the past of our plot at various stages of development.
Joan tending the veggies — you can tell how close it is to the freeway on-ramp here.
From the other side during a watering session.
And this was a layout she asked me to make from an overhead view as a record of what she has in there and roughly where it’s placed.
My oldest daughter’s cheer team at the high school regionals. Just like the caption says, she told me that sitting on the floor there, looking out at all the other competitors in their uniforms, it was a “sea of bows”. I thought that was a poetic way of describing it. A quick sketch from the lower bleachers.
My friend and co-worker Anthony Holden inspired me today by reminding me not to get to “precious” about what sketches I may upload, take a chance and show sketches that I’m not 100% happy with, but put them up here anyway. I think it’s good advice.
I watered our plot at our Community Garden and, while soaking the roots of a sapling, sketched some of the blossoms of a nearby peach tree. The bees were busy…
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