Yesterday I said I was going to pick some of my favorite drawings and paintings of 2006 and take a look at what they represented to me on my Creative Journey. It’s going to be too long to do all 12 months - so I’ll do the second six months tomorrow.
Now, when I look back […]

At the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Avenue, there’s a big shopping complex where jazz concerts are held on warm summer evenings. You can buy a glass of wine and listen to great music, and then stroll around the shops. I didn’t draw it in this view, but the whole center court has a […]

We went to the LA County Museum of Art yesterday, saw some exhibits (not Hockney, we didn’t have enough time for that) but the one on art glass was wonderful. At one point we took a break in the courtyard. Here are some of the people that were sitting close enough to see, but far […]

Last night I did two more Mandu sketches while Glenn held her. The top one was done with the Kuretake brush pen and the lower one was drawn with a Derwent 8B graphitint pencil. It’s water soluble but I didn’t add any water to it - it was just what I had handy. It has […]

Seen at a farmer’s market … a man and his lizard. I liked the look of the these two buds, hanging out together, getting some fresh air and a snack. Some days it actually is easy being green.

Despite the rainstorm last night there was a good turnout for yesterday’s biannual Art Night in Pasadena. Our first stop, at 6 pm, was the Pacific Asia Museum, which holds a wonderful collection of antiquities from the far east. We were particularly captivated by one of the current collections called Reflections of Beauty - Women […]

As you can see, I use my journals for a lot of different purposes, not only for sketching pleasure. As I’ve committed myself to doing more painting this year, I find that I’m reaching for it more and more as a practical workbook, not a chronological diary of my days. In fact, I have […]

Lions dance through fields of firecracker debris. Surely good fortune will follow.
Brush pen in my Moleskine … memories of the Chinese New Year parade.

Yesterday we took the Gold Line Metro down to Chinatown for the annual LA Golden Dragon Parade, which is the official big event for Chinese New Year. Along the way we stopped at MOCA (LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art) to see the exhibit of late 20th century American comics, but we didn’t leave anywhere […]

This afternoon Ripley was sleeping so soundly on the floor of my office that I thought I could probably get a quick drawing of her done before she stirred. She did move her paws around but thankfully kept her head steady most of the time.
This was drawn with the water soluble Kuretake brush pen, which […]