May Sketch a Day!

A daily drawing for the Twitter challenge #MaySketchaDay

Cantalini's, Playa Del Rey

 The local bird populace enjoy boat washing time at Marina Del Rey!

 Sloopy's Beach Cafe, Manhattan Beach

The view from Playa Provisions at Playa Del Rey.

 The Japanese Fishing Village memorial at Terminal island, port of LA.

 ‘Fire’ boats at San Pedro with the USS Iowa behind and the Vincent Thomas bridge in the background.

 Manhattan Beach

 Venice

 Culver Hotel, Culver City

 Notes at the Getty museum

 Lounge at the Chateau Marmont

 Sunset Strip

 Manhattan Beach

 Manhattan Beach

 Playa Del Rey

Culver City

Sketchgrams

Introducing a new series of video 'sketchgrams' - films and drawings made around Los Angeles.


Drawing around Santa Monica & Culver City









Sketching around Venice Beach, California with animation artists Ian Abando, Adam Dix and Dirk Van Dulmen.

Summer '16

It was a long, hot summer in Los Angeles and a creative one for me. I got out and about and kept up the plein air painting. See dozens more videos of me painting and drawing on my You Tube channel.

Venice Beach sketchbook

More sketches from the neighbourhood . . .

Venice Beach

Sketchcrawl around Venice Beach

Venice

My old chum Matt Cruickshank and I made a geek pilgrimage to L.A. recently  to see master animator Richard Williams lecture at the Academy.  We stayed close to the ocean at Venice Beach and I was able to get out early and sketch before it became too crowded.

Below is the reverse angle of the street above

Somehow I've missed 'Muscle Beach' every time I've visited Venice- this time I was determined to draw the famous landmark. At Santa Monica Monica Pier I found the original site - below

Santa Monica

The Google office at Venice- enter through the binocs!

Cliff's Edge, Silverlake