Posted in Personal work on Oct 19th, 2012
Crave at the Mall of America seems to be my sanctuary from the shopping crowds. I tend to end up at the bar with my sketch pad, a beer, and some sushi while my family shops. Today, I started a drawing of one of the bar patrons and my daughter later joined in contributing a [...]
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Posted in Personal work, Sketches on Nov 30th, 2010
Posted in Personal work, Sketches on Mar 6th, 2010
Saturdays, I’m often at Black Dog in St. Paul. Although I like their music, occasionally, some of it is difficult to work to. And there was this guy tapping his foot. Anyway, sketched there a bit and then wandered over the Bulldog and sketched there (Faber-Castell artist pen).
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Posted in Personal work, Sketches on Dec 22nd, 2009
My daughter signed up to promote her ballet troupe’s Nutcracker performance this season. She dressed up in her soldier outfit and handed out fliers at the Mall of America on Black Friday. She didn’t want me hanging around so I walked down to Crave (website plays music) with my sketchbook and pens and drew people [...]
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Posted in Personal work, Sketches on Oct 14th, 2009
Today, I was sketching with my students at Nina’s Coffee Cafe, actually spent most of my time grading but got in a quick couple of sketches, one here with some notes from my friend Zak Sally‘s presentation to my other class. In addition, a couple of sketches from September, sketchbook catching-up day. The top sketch [...]
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