My friends Marni & Ryan got hitched this past weekend. This is a color study that I did for a larger painting of them but I really like the way it turned out.
The short story is very small town+ road trip + christmas day = absolutely no restaurants open anywhere. really. we looked. And then we drove to another little town and looked....and then we drove to another town and looked some more...
So we ended up at a casino for Christmas dinner. I think my mom is still in shock. It was pretty funny. Actually it was hilarious, and we had a lot of fun (could have been the white russians...). But seriously, who goes to a casino on christmas?! (Besides us of course but....). So I had to do some sketching 'cause there were some really funky people there. The little Monet man sitting by himself with a charlie-brown poinsetta on the table could have made me cry but he seemed pretty content and he knew all the waitresses....
I spent a few days in New York looking at loads of fantastic art, a little bit of shopping and lots of people watching. I love that city! This is outside of Central Park looking down 5th Avenue.
Spent a gorgeous weekend above Santa Barbara at El Capitan State Beach. I did some sketches this morning and took the long way home through Ojai. Just in time to hit major traffic coming home. Still it was worth it...
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain