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Urban Sketchers is a network of artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel to. We have this blog, which is by invitation, and a 
If you want to start your own USk blog and connect all urban sketchers in your city, here's how to go about it:
1. Get a group of a minimum of 3 sketchers together interested in launching an USk blog for your city. 2. Send your names and e-mail addresses to urbansketchers at gmail dot com with a brief paragraph stating your interest in launching the blog and how you plan to keep it fresh and engage your community. You will be the blog's administrator and will be expected to run it following the rules of the group. A blog that becomes a showcase of drawings made from photos or doodles will obviously not fly. 3. We'll create the blog and give you full access to it. You'll be able to invite people to participate, personalize it with your own flag, add links and more. So, what are you waiting for? Get your fellow citizens out to sketch!
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
3 comments:
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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