Odds and ends

Not a lot of artwork made in the past couple of weeks, but here's what I did do:

Breakfast out on Saturday, at Farmer Boy. I had never been there before, and got a kick out of the wall art picturing a regular-size farmer digging giant potatoes the size of boulders.

Two book covers, to go with a book review on my readers' advisory site, http://bookadept.com/blog. I enjoyed these books a lot, but now it's a long wait for #3 in the trilogy, so if you don't like waiting (or rereading), put it off until next summer!

And today's sketch, of several of the innumerable ornate brick buildings on the UCLA campus. I had to take some paperwork to personnel and sign it, and since I had paid for three hours of parking but my errand only took 30 minutes, I sat down and sketched for a while. It was such a pleasure, after weeks of rain and extra-chilly temperatures, to sit outside in shirt sleeves and sketch in 75-degree sun!

I despair at ever being to convey all these solid walls of vari-colored brick, let alone get the perspective right, but I'll keep trying.