Mall creepin'

I hate, and I mean, HATE, Starbucks coffee, tea, desserts, even their napkins are horrible (try using them to clean brushes while painting). BUT the devoted fans lined up tapping on their cell phones, ordering half-calf, double espresso, caramel, non-fat, non-sweet, chocolate, cappuccino, latte, iced coffee dessert drink make for great subjects! 

[pilot V5 pen, PITT cool gray markers, a gigantic PITT white marker in a gray toned Strathmore sketchbook]

mall sketching

i got to meet up with my favorite local sketcher genine--or as google wants to autocorrect her name to--genuine. we sat at my not-so-favortie coffee shop and sketched the robots waiting for the name to be called and to get their hands on a cup of overpriced, bad coffee. we then shuffled over to the food court for a snack and some more sketching. we ended the day sketching people in line for santa! 

at the end of the day i bumped into 5 students, 1 fellow teacher, the woman who cuts my hair, a local illustrator friend, and a partridge in a pear tree. 

[various pens, strathmore toned sketchbook]