My wife and I went to Seattle a couple weeks ago, and I did this sketch from the window of our hotel. (I know, it’s what every artist draws in Seattle, this or the Space Needle.) Below is a photo of the same view.

I’ve only just this week discovered the wonderful Cafe Borrone in Menlo Park, which, in addition to having great food and lots of people to sketch, also happens to be located between two independent bookstores — Kepler’s Books & Magazines (for your regular book shopping), and Feldman’s Books (for your rare/used/out-of-print book needs).

Let’s just say I’ll be making this a regular stop during my lunch breaks.

Also, drawings from this week’s Cogswell session. This time, the model brought a couple of musical instruments and actually played while modeling. First a guitar, and then later an alto saxophone: