San Diego Comic-Con

I spent a long weekend visiting San Diego, California, for annual Comic-Con, where a massive crowd of people dressed in costumes fill the floor to look at celebrities, comic books, movie memorabilia, illustration, and other entertainment- and art-related goodies. Being at the Con is a great opportunity for people-watching. Below is a collection of quick sketches of people with various headgear - the strangest one was a woman with an otherwise ordinary clothes who had an empty rice bag over her head.


(Another sketch from San Diego and larger version of above sketch is posted on Urban Sketchers website.)

Los Angeles River

I've been painting with a group of other artists at Urban Plein Air Society, and we have been exploring the Los Angeles River. It's quite urban, with concrete bottom and graffiti, yet also lush with plants and wild birds. I enjoy capturing the different aspects of the river that can only be seen on foot. I'll post more as I do more sketches.

Los Angeles Sketch Crawl: Echo Park

I was with about a dozen people for 23rd edition of World Wide Sketch Crawl, and enjoyed meeting fellow artists, both familiar and new. We chose to sketch at Echo Park in Los Angeles. There happened to be a festival and the weather was perfect, so that made for a pleasant time.

Angelus Temple:




Echo Park has a very large lake in the middle:




My usual roundup of people sketches:




It was a great day to spend outdoors!

Taco Truck Part 2: Border Grill

I'm wondering: should I start a series of taco truck/food truck sketches? I started sketching them with Kogi BBQ taco truck, and now the mobile eatery that serves affordable, unique food is getting popular here in Los Angeles.

A locally well-known restaurant, Border Grill, now has a food truck. I happened to be there with other curious shoppers on its first day at the Santa Monica farmer's market. The tacos had fresh ingredients with homemade corn tortillas - yummy!

[Photo courtesy of Corey Takahashi]

[Also posted at Urban Sketchers]