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

People

...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...















At the eastern end of Echo Park on Sunset is a great taco restaurant...Guisados.  Office workers from downtown gather here for lunch...

Olvera Street, the oldest part of Los Angeles...a great place for a post-Barcelona Urban Sketchers reunion with Shiho, Chris and John...

  ...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!)