Hollywood Bowl

This last evening we went to the Hollywood Bowl as guests of some good friends who had front row seats. I did some watercolor sketching:

This is Sarah Chang. She was amazing. I normally don't pay too much attention to clothing, but she was wearing a dress that really suited itself well to watercolor.

Violinists in the orchestra right in front of us.

Portrait

I've been trying to get the time to do more watercolor. The pencil and the smudge tool are just so much more portable. Although every day I've been looking at a watercolor book I bought recently: Pasadena Sketchbook by Joseph Stoddard. I love his incredibly loose linework and washes. Very inspiring -- and he's a local artist painting locales very familiar to me. More of his work can be seen here.

Raccoon update...

Night before last I was in my studio and heard some noise outside. I looked and discovered our friend "Pat" (see post below) -- but with four small raccoon cubs -- all munching on peanuts. They looked up at me, then went right back to feeding. I think this means Pat is a female? Not certain, but a hunch nevertheless.

Late night visitor

A neighborhood raccoon about the size of a medium-sized dog comes to our front porch a couple times a week. Sometimes we put peanuts out for him/her (not sure, so we've named him/her "Pat" -- in honor of the Julia Sweeney SNL skit, ha). He/she was moving quite a bit so I had to sketch a bit faster than usual to capture him/her.

Pool party

A nice relaxing Fourth Of July at our neighbor's house. What you don't see are the ten kids in the pool.

Lily knitting