Rocky Cola Cafe is a 50s diner and burger joint in Montrose, in the suburbs of Los Angeles. At Rocky Cola, red is the color du jour, and it's used everywhere, not just in the spacious booths but as ornament on the cashier's stand. Only the ATM machine is an anachronous touch. The gumball machine is perfectly in character with the theme, right out of American Graffiti. I sketched this very hurriedly the other day while waiting for our breakfast to come. (Henfruit, wreck em! ) That's scrambled eggs, in case you were wondering More American diner slang here.
Karen Winters
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Terrific work Karen! I love the spot color and I especially dig the subtle shadows around the tufted leather (more likely pleather) panel.
Great drawing. Love that simple use of one colour throughout the picture.
Thanks Suzanne and Nina,
Yes, I was drawing so quickly - maybe like 5 min. or so, that I didn't have time to do any value work with the drawing - nothing tied it together. As soon as we are we had to leave for our appointment. So the thought occurred later that adding the red would create some anchors to hold the design together.
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