More Catching Up!

More catching up here with sketching people around town--in cafes, at meetings, museums and other places...              

At newly opened Blue Bottle Coffee in Echo Park above...

Below...quick sketching at a bakery in La Canada and Lamill Cafe in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles...

A couple of sketches from the Highland Cafe, out on the sidewalk in Highland Park...

...and cafe society back at Lamill in Silver Lake...

If you're a  sketcher, you probably sketch in meetings!  Here, at Otis College...

Faculty...and students too...

The Rodin Sculpture  Garden at LACMA is a favorite place to sketch...occasionally someone stops to look at a sculpture, or has a picture taken mimicking the gesture, but most visitors seem to breeze by...

And the Sculpture Garden at the Getty Center...

Nothing better though, than sketching musicians...my talented friend Christina Ortega performing with her band at a fantastic Dia de Los Muertos celebration concert that she also produced in Pasadena, California...

Summer in L.A....

Sketching people in the Silver Lake neighborhood...

Looking down Sunset Blvd. at "antique" furniture for sale on the street, and the guys who load stuff into your car relaxing...

One thing I've learned about urban sketching, is that you never know what will cross your path!  I was sketching at the intersection of Sunset and Silver Lake Blvd. and suddenly around the corner a group of bicycle riders came whooping and hooting around the corner...without the usual bicycle gear!  Later I discovered that I just happened to witness the "Los Angeles World Naked Bike Ride".  What I especially noticed was the variety of shapes, colors, ages and sizes of the riders...

And some sketches from "Sunset Triangle", a tiny, green polka-dotted plaza at a Sunset Blvd. intersection in Silver Lake.  It's called "L.A.'s first pedestrian plaza conversion"...the bluesman was setting the mood at a little mid-week farmer's market with some casual riffs...

Shooting some hoops...

On a sunny afternoon, a group of men I took to be homeless gather on the green pocket park next to the Sunset Triangle plaza.  As I drew this, one man sang, "Who's gonna take me home tonight?"

In drawing homeless people, I don't want to take advantage of them...at the same time, on a day like this, it felt like to not draw them would be to ignore them...and they certainly have a presence here.

City People...

...another summer day at Barnsdall Park in East Hollywood...a Capoiera group from 

Silver Lake shows up to practice.  This has to be one of the coolest things I've ever seen!

...along Sunset Blvd. in Silver Lake...

At the recent "Art in the Streets" exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles...waiting to get in, and some exhibition views...