Every year our small city (La Canada-Flintridge) enters a float in the Rose Parade which is entirely volunteer built, engineered and piloted down Colorado Blvd. on New Year’s Day, or thereabouts. This year I decided to go down and have a look around and then to do some sketches based on my impressions of the […]

I got a little derailed last week with Christmas preparations. But now we’re back on track.
For newcomers to this blog, blind contour drawing is drawing while looking at the object but NOT at the paper.
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He got it for Christmas and damn it, he’s going to wear it - even if it is 70 degrees out.
Seen outside a Starbucks in LA. The jacket came off as soon as he started drinking his hot latte.
It’s a good thing I didn’t start drawing him wearing it or it would have been another […]

All cats are panhandlers.
P.S. The antibiotic seems to have worked.

Ripley, the very fierce bulldog unwraps her Christmas present (a stuffed rat squeak toy).
Picture courtesy of Labelle Kel.
Ripley’s gotta do something about the hairy moles and overdue pedicure or she’s not going to have a dog date for New Year’s. Might think about some botox and a jowl lift while she’s at it.

The days after Christmas are often the most relaxed and enjoyable of the year. The preparations are over and done with, the family is gathered round, the house still looks and smells like Christmas, and, being a Christmas-time baby, I have more partying to look forward to just a few days from now.
When my […]

There will be new art here tomorrow. Right now, I’m still cleaning up all the falalalala and enjoying the company of our daughter, home briefly from New York, and our son, home from college.
In the meantime, why don’t you mosey on over to Russ Stutler’s new Sketching Discussion Page and join in a conversation. If […]

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and Joyful Winter Solstice, from Karen, Glenn, Labelle Kel, Mike, Ripley, Cat Mandu and Foggy.
Now go out there and deck some halls.

A few more scenes from the sushi bar toward the end of our crawl last Saturday night. Yes, I know I have drawn the sake bottle and the cup from different angles; a higher angle didn’t show the drawing on the bottle. A lower angle didn’t show the liquid in the cup. Matisse got […]

Although it is nearly the shortest and darkest day of the year, the gray clouds have fled, the temperatures have warmed, and the yard, finally, is radiating with fall color. As I sit at my desk and look out the window, this youthful oak tree dominates the scene. The ivy that embraces it is indifferent […]