Back at The Drawing Club

Recently at The Drawing Club, we said goodbye at least temporarily to another favorite model and actress, Karole Foreman...she'll certainly be missed!  She recreates "Foxy Cleopatra" for us, from the Austin Powers movie...

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...

Ten Years...

Recently The Drawing Club celebrated ten years!  Thanks so much to Bob Kato and his great assistants  for always making it a first class experience--a special place for so many of us!  Models Steve Jacobsen, Daniella Traub and John Tucker came dressed in style for the party...

 Cheers!

The Boxer returns for one last round...

at The Drawing Club

Quantae Love returns one last time 

in this classic theme...

a powerful presence, great model and muse, 

and a great person...he'll be missed!

Edward Scissorhands at The Drawing Club...

Beautiful actress and model Malo creates an amazing, 

gender-bending transformation 

as Edward Scissorhands!

at The Drawing Club

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.

Drawing at the Scottish Festival and Highland Games

...in Costa Mesa, kicks off the summer and is a fun and colorful place to sketch!

I love seeing these guys who dust off their tartans
every year to wear them proudly...

A fife and drum band...

...and the athletes, male and female, tossing cabers (that look like telephone poles) 

and hurling other heavy objects...

...and a 21-caber salute
in honor of Memorial Day...

Pirates at The Drawing Club!

Sara as "The Clockwork Pirate Girl"...

a steampunk fantasy...

The Drawing Club

...and John Tucker creates a 

wonderful pirate character 

in his elegantly tattered coat...Captain Grungy!