One more from the weekend

Easter weekend sketching

It was a relaxing weekend with three days off. After lunch on Friday we went to the local park. She's drawing me in her sketchbook while I draw her. I'll see if she'll let me borrow her sketch to upload here.


More obvious relaxing.

View out our window

I wasn't going to upload this sketch here, but my wife saw it in my sketchbook and liked it, so what the heck.

Gravesite Serenade

Every day I drive to work past one of the largest cemetaries in Southern California. Yesterday I happened to glance up at the hill above the road and saw the scene I've sketched here for exactly one second before returning my attention to 45 mph traffic. The two musicians were apparently professionals, dressed in dark uniforms, one playing a violin, the other playing one of those large bass guitars mariachi musicians use. Were they paid to play at the gravesite by a grieving relative? Or were they playing to a fallen comrade? Whatever the reason, it was an interesting and oddly touching visual. One second isn't long, but long enough to retain and recall enough to make this sketch this morning from memory.

Kawase Hasui

"Byodoin Temple, Hodo"
by Kawase Hasui, 1921

One of my all time favorite artists, Kawase Hasui. Beautifully composed, carefully rendered, atmospheric stuff well worth study.

Napping...

Links a plenty

Some links that might be of interest. My friend Dave sent me these:

• Barb Dickey, aka "The Storyboard Queen" has a fun web site for her work - storyboardland.com.
• Cool site full of commercials, short films, animation, music videos, etc. - boardsmag.com.
• A wonderful, graphics intensive fine-art site called The Art Renewal Center. You can buy art prints there as well.