I drew him looking a couple years younger than he really is for some reason. It might be the angle, or maybe I foreshortened him too much, hmmm. He’s writing a presidential speech for school. I like his scholarly posture.
I took my old car to the car wash yesterday. There’s a lot of waiting around there and I always feel guilty that I could be spending my time more productively, although the environs don’t inspire much in the way of art. So I thought, why not sketch the people waiting? I had to be fast and furtive here, so I fell back on the trusty 6b pencil and smudge tool. It still is the fastest way for me to get the information down on paper, as much as I do miss the color.
They stayed out there long enough to do a quick color study. If they had picked up and left it would have made it much more difficult. Lately I’ve been addicted to color for some reason.
Typically, to my memory, the hottest time of the year in Southern California is early September. It got so hot last month that the heat, coupled with the overuse of electricity (air conditioning) actually melted the wires on the pole in the backyard. The guys from the Department of Water and Power came right out, thankfully, and I sketched them as they worked. They were quite friendly and were amused by my sketching one of them up on the pole, and their equipment on our lawn.
Clockwise from the top: The ever-present folding chair (I think we have eight or so) scattered around the campsite, Stacy the snake, brother-in-law Chris reading a Harry Potter book on a hammock overlooking the stream below the campsite.
This is the view from our tent. We always get the same campsite, year to year, with the river just behind the tent. Joan and the kids were there for two weeks. I was there for the last week. A wonderful, relaxing time.
This is a quick sketch of my son Jack from last month when we went to see the latest Harry Potter movie. He was sitting next to his friend and joking around — I only had time to sketch him, but you see a certain conspiratorial mischief in his expression I think. Would have been better with the other kid included, but hey.
This last evening we went to the Hollywood Bowl as guests of some good friends who had front row seats. I did some watercolor sketching:
This is Sarah Chang. She was amazing. I normally don’t pay too much attention to clothing, but she was wearing a dress that really suited itself well to watercolor.
Violinists in the orchestra right in front of us.
Anthony Zierhut 