Bluegrass Jammin'

A local coffee shop (Greenhouse Cafe) has these awesome jam sessions about every other week. Anywhere from 10-25 musicians show up and rock out for a few hours. They synchronization and mastery of their instruments is very impressive. They take a quick glance at what the others are doing and jump in. We artists then sketch the musicians all the while sipping on great coffee and even better toasted panini sandwiches. 
[pentel pencil, namiki falcon with DeArtementis Document ink, D+S watercolors in a S+B Zeta sketchbook]

cajun jam session and sketching

pretty straight-forward, musicians played we sketched! 

[watercolors, falcon pen w/noodler's black eel ink, PITT cool gray markers, white gel pen in a strathmore toned sketchbook or a still man & birn gamma series sketchbook]

bluegrass jam

whoa! whoa! whoa! this was way cool. another sketch group admin posted a sketch outing at the greenhouse cafe for their "bluegrass jam". the video below gives you an idea that it wasn't 2 hippies banging on bongo drums in a park. this was about 20 musicians that blew my mind. i am always impressed by people who are very good at a task. if someone didn't know the song they would watch another musician for a second, think, bounce the beat with their foot and jump in! 

I also had an art teacher friend join me and an art geek friend of hers. we were sketching and sketching and sketching! we didn't even have time to catch up! 

wicked.