Sketching at L.A.'s museums...

Some sketchbook sketches from some recent museum visits...

at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art during a recent Worldwide Sketchcrawl with the L.A. group...sketching in the courtyard, and the new installation--Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass--looking west and east...

 ...and across the street, "The Wall Project"--10 original Berlin Wall segments brought to Los Angeles by the Wende Museum to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall.  Several artists were invited to paint 5 of the segments:  Kent Twitchell, Thierry Noir, Farrah Karapetian and Marie Astrid Gonzalez.  I was very moved to realize I was seeing a portion of that Wall here in my home town.

Sketching the La Brea Tar Pits
in Hancock Park, next to the George C. Page Museum...

sketching art and life at the Getty Center...Rene Magritte's "Delusions of Grandeur" in 2 views...

 the huge floating maze that sits

at the center of the wonderfully eccentric garden designed by artist Robert Irwin...the fountain in the courtyard, and some earlier views of people eating and relaxing next to the marble-clad block walls...

Exotic Los Angeles Buildings

...is a subject I've only begun to explore!  As a Los Angeles native, I love the "anything goes" attitude that extends even to architecture...from very modern to numerous "revival" styles...and of course the truly exotic buildings...

Drawing downtown...two views of Gehry's Disney Concert Hall..I will tackle this fabulous building again!

I love the shapes and colors in Meier's Getty Center...

...and the slightly eccentric Japanese Gallery at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Bruce Goff...

The Hollyhock House was Frank Lloyd Wright's first building in Los Angeles, commissioned by Aline Barnsdall and built in 1921--now part of Barnsdall Park--is often referred to as "Mayan Revival".  He called it "California Romanza"...

...and the Self-Realization Fellowship with its lotus finials on  Sunset Blvd...

The spires of the Holy Transfiguration Russian Orthodox Church rise above a derelict super market...from Sunset Blvd.