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Here’s a quick sketch I did at Venice Beach over the weekend.

Walked around Santa Monica and Venice Beach. Here is an ink sketch from outside the Santa Monica post office and some quick watercolor sketches from the boardwalk on Venice Beach.

Checked out the Organic Orchestra at Electric Lounge tonight. Here are some sketches. Check the schedule. They have several shows this week and next with a different group of musicians every night lead by Adam Rudolph. There were at least double the musicians performing as what I managed to draw.

Just a quick watercolor before bed.

Here’s a quick practice watercolor face. Nice to do some painting again. I’m approaching these in a manner similar to the pen sketches, with some of the color layering I had done with markers in early posts. I may start going back toward that even rougher style. Let’s see where I can take it from here.

I’ve wanted to do a sketch of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for a long time, but wanted to wait till I could conentrate on it. Did a quick search on google video to see if any kind souls had added more qawwali and sure enough here are two amazing examples.
Nusrat 1
Nusrat 2
Did this quick watercolor so I could sleep. The second clip has him singing some of Allama Iqbal’s poetry. I’ll have to do a sketch of him and talk a little about that when I get a chance.

Just put two practice faces on a page. I think it’s time for another round of just drawing lots of faces like I did months ago.

Did a quick sketch from a photo I took in the bazar in Kasur, Pakistan last year. I’m trying to incorporate a bit more construction in the figures.

I drew some sketches of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan off of cd covers while listening to some music at a friend’s place. He is perhaps the most famous Sarod player around, and deservedly so.

I also did this quick sketch of a mother with her children off a photo on the net.

Here are some sketches of a dance group called Viver Brasil and a really good band called Quetzal from the Santa Monica Festival over the weekend. I also did a quick watercolor sketch. That last pencil sketch is from a dance performance at UCLA…just scribbled down the audience.