My daughter fell in love with this little frog at the pet store mentioned below. He was sticking to the inside of the glass tank like Spider-Man.
Here’s the frog:
Here’s the kid:
My son has an ailing Chinese water dragon. We went to the lizard and fish specialty pet store to see if we could make him/her happier (they have to grow a bit bigger to tell which, so says the vet). I sketched this big chameleon while we poked around and looked at all the animals.
It was a relaxing weekend with three days off. After lunch on Friday we went to the local park. She’s drawing me in her sketchbook while I draw her. I’ll see if she’ll let me borrow her sketch to upload here.
More obvious relaxing.
I wasn’t going to upload this sketch here, but my wife saw it in my sketchbook and liked it, so what the heck.
Every day I drive to work past one of the largest cemetaries in Southern California. Yesterday I happened to glance up at the hill above the road and saw the scene I’ve sketched here for exactly one second before returning my attention to 45 mph traffic. The two musicians were apparently professionals, dressed in dark uniforms, one playing a violin, the other playing one of those large bass guitars mariachi musicians use. Were they paid to play at the gravesite by a grieving relative? Or were they playing to a fallen comrade? Whatever the reason, it was an interesting and oddly touching visual. One second isn’t long, but long enough to retain and recall enough to make this sketch this morning from memory.
She turns seven next month. Maybe I’ve got too many kid sketches here, but hey, when I’m off work for the weekend I’m hanging out with my kids, so I draw what I see.
On a different note, yesterday I picked up a book in the sale bin at the local bookstore on my favorite New Yorker cartoonist, George Booth. It’s hysterical. Good interview with him about his life by Lee Lorenz, too. Mr. Booth is one of the few gag cartoonists who can really draw, despite what might appear to be a humorously casual drawing style. I think I like his humor because it is so unpredictable and just plain odd. And he draws really funny cats that just sit in the background of his sketches.
Anthony Zierhut 