The heart of the town seems to be the library, and the magnificent Moreton Bay Fig tree in the library park. Lots of weekend community events congregate there...
I love the process of preparing for a workshop--I start with essential techniques and ways of working--contour drawing and feeling the form with line. All the textures of this beautiful tree are a perfect subject with a variety of tools...
sketching in broad strokes with a carpenter's pencil...
a family picnics near the fig tree as I sketch, and one of the little girls comes over to see what I'm doing, and offers to pose for me doing her ballet steps!
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Another South Pasadena landmark...Buster's Coffee...painted here on a crazy-hot day in September...
...I happened on to a classic car show one Sunday on Mission Street...and fortunate to get in some sketches before they drove away...this owner of this little turquoise jewel of a Thunderbird went into the bar next door, and the old Ford roadster drove up in front of me...
...and some South Pasadena people...sketched from Buster's across from the train station...
