People...

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...

...but most of the time I like to draw people doing ordinary things...

Working...at a car wash in Pasadena, and a film
crew wrapping up on Sunset Blvd....

Shopping...at the Saugus Swap Meet
with a train rumbling by...








...or at the wonderful India Sweets and Spices...

...at the little Farmer's Market at Sunset Triangle on Sunset Blvd...

Families and friends eating out...a family on Father's Day...

the Saturday morning crowd at the bakery in La Canada,

and a group lunch at Gordon Biersch...

 ...and at the Getty Center

Quick Sketching

...people doing everyday things...

...having lunch on the weekend 

at the Getty Center, or at Gordon Biersch in Burbank...

...at Mo's in Burbank, where I went for a "calming restorative"--coffee and breakfast, actually, after visiting my accountant.  Jay stands at right chatting about the ups and downs of the entertainment business with a regular, and Kyle mans the front desk.  It's quiet before the lunchtime rush from the nearby studios.  Jay catches me in the act of sketching, and he very kindly comped my breakfast!

Men working in the parking lot at Costco, while shoppers come and go and I sit sketching while waiting for new tires...

 The 39th Worldwide Sketchcrawl coincided with the Downtown Burbank Art Festival, so the Los Angeles group met there on an overcast, gray morning...some local musicians in a great jazz band in front of a shopping center...










...and the great character model, John Tucker poses as a cowboy in front of the "Bank of the West" for anyone who wants to sketch him, as part of CTN (Creative Talent Network) which teamed up with the Art Festival

...and quick sketches with lunch of my fellow shoppers and some sellers at one of my favorite Los Angeles places, the downtown Grand Central Market...

Summer People

People out and about...

Shopping and eating...

Among the sculpture at the Getty Center...

...and viewing the new Michael Heizer "Levitated Mass" installation at LACMA...


 

Across from LACMA...picnicking in front of "The Wall Project"...segments of the Berlin Wall with several repainted by artists Kent Twitchell, Thierry Noir, Farrah Karapetian and Marie Astrid Gonzalez (this is a pretty loose interpretation...)

Strolling around the La Brea Tar Pits...

Patio dining, visiting Barnsdall Park and filling up the big cup of coke on a very hot day...