The opening turned out to be really fun, partly because the cafe has such a nice atmosphere, and partly because of the great crowd...

Sneak preview of some of the works I will be displaying at the show.  Check them out!

It was early January of this year and all of a sudden I was going to have a show, at Flying Saucers in Santa Monica.  As this was going to be the case, I decided it was only fair I start drawing over there.  This is the first drawing I made at Flying Saucers.  I find myself looking back at it a lot in my sketchbook. Once you have experience drawing a place, or any subject, you get better at it, but you also lose some innocence in relation to it, as it were.

Basically this is a stealth operation.  I really don't want people to know what I am doing, partly because the drawings are so much better that way.  So, I need to find a place (usually where people eat but sometimes places like the bus) where I can draw what I want without being discovered, at least by those I am sketching. 

These are the women next to me on the plane home.  It's amazing to me that I can be staring at a person next to me, or across a table, for quite a while, drawing them, and they never appear to notice me, at least they never let me know it.  Maybe they are just being kind and letting me draw them, but I think they are just concentrating on what they are doing.  Whatever the reason, I appreciate it.  And this about wraps up my November Canadian trip! 

It was November 11, 2010, Veteran's Day in the US and Remembrance Day in Canada.  I never knew it was called that, but being half Canadian I like knowing those little facts.  What was most interesting to me were all the people wearing those little plastic red flowers with a black center.

Several years ago my sister brought me a small blank notebook from Italy with a beautiful blue and white stenciled paper cover.  I loved it and wished I had some special use for it.  

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