Showing posts with label Los Angeles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Los Angeles. Show all posts

Friday, November 21, 2014

parking garage magic


A couple of weeks ago I was at Trader Joe's in the early evening and I took some photos out of the concrete windows in the stairwell of the parking garage.  Wha?!!!  This is a parking garage!  With a beautiful smoggy softly lit dusk view?  Just lovely...  (I posted the uncolored drawing here but I feel like I may do a series of sharpie vs. photoshop pieces like the one above.  Using the lowest tech with the highest tech and having the drawings meet somewhere in the middle.  Hmm...)

Thursday, November 20, 2014

for you, Vanessa


So I've been drawing a ton.  And making patterns, taking pictures, etc but posting nothing to this blog.  Some of the drawings were for a facebook page I did with friends in September, until I realized that facebook was really bumming me out so I deleted it from my phone and have avoided checking it...  And now I'm in the midst of a drawing project with Kristin and we have our drawings posted here for the time being.
The drawing above is from this morning for my project with Kristin, as a documentation of my LA mornings lately.  I wake up and debate going for a run immediately and then decide that instead, I will make coffee.  With my big old cup of coffee I sit at my desk, read emails, check my planner, make some to-do lists, and then sometimes play The Daily Show or something on Netflix or some music while I draw or paint or stare into space with my coffee until I realize I'm starting to get jittery and it's time to make some food to counter the caffeine.  
This morning I reheated some leftover ginger garlic tofu bok choy soup because I needed to finish it but it wasn't what I wanted- I just shoveled it in and felt uncomfortably hot from it- almost feverish which is awesome when one is already feeling on the verge of panic from a little too much coffee and the uncertainty of one's future due to her employment status...  yay!  (and that's when I decide that tomorrow, for sure, I will run first thing rather than going straight for the coffee...)