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.
It starts to feel like summer here in May with an annual visit to the Southern California Renaissance Faire...it's always fun to draw people at serious play, in costume...
the Saturday morning crowd at the bakery in La Canada,
