...in a panoramic sketchbook format, thinking of ways to create more of a story...
At the Getty Center...
India Sweet and Spices, a big Indian grocery store with a vegetarian restaurant...a picture of Yogananda smiles beneficently from behind the counter and a grandmother sits and watches all that happens. All kinds of people shop in here for treats and delicacies, and watch musicals from Bollywood...
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At the eastern end of Echo Park on Sunset is a great taco restaurant...Guisados. Office workers from downtown gather here for lunch...
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Olvera Street, the oldest part of Los Angeles...a great place for a post-Barcelona Urban Sketchers reunion with Shiho, Chris and John...
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...and then in anticipation of teaching a sketching on location workshop at Descanso Gardens again, I spent some time in the garden, making small sketches, back to the basics of line, shape and tone (which I never get tired of!)
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