This is from last weekend — a wonderful time spent at my brother and sister-in-laws’ house. They have a beautiful 1911 home in Orange with a great back porch.
This weekend we’re in Idyllwild with some good friends. This is the first time I’ve blogged from a distant location. Unfortunately I forgot to bring my scanner, but I’ll put up the sketches when I get home. They say a snow storm is on its way here. Hopefully we won’t get snowed in!
We had some fancy dessert last night. Joan’s showing Jane how to properly use the butane torch on the Creme Brulee. Fun and tasty.
I don’t much like to watch tv, so while the family watched, I sketched them watching. The flu ran through our house these last few days and knocked me down for five days. Everybody is pretty much back to normal, thank goodness.
Ok, there’s a story here. Lately I’ve been starting my drawings of people from the top of the head and working my way down. I was sitting at a diner by myself and saw a table full of older guys wearing baseball caps. So I started to draw them, but one guy saw me, so I stopped, and my food arrived before I could finish the other guys. Two weeks later I’m sitting with my kids eating lunch, with my sketchbook open to a page of baseball hats floating in mid air. The kids said I should finish the sketches, suggesting the different animals that could be wearing them. Jack suggested a chicken, Jane suggested a fish, and Lily, typical of her strangely humorous mind, suggested a watermelon. Silly stuff.
Update: color! Threw some quick Photoshop color on it just for fun.
She’s only 11, but looks 27 here. I think I erred on some proportion or something. She came to hang out with me at the studio all day as I worked.
Anthony Zierhut 