The All American

 Now that the watercolor challenge is over I can go back and catch up on posting some other things that got put on the side. A few weeks back I met my friend, Suzala for a bit of sketching after I helped my SIL do a few errands. (She couldn't drive for a few weeks after a car accident.) Suzala and I ended up sitting across from a place called the ALL AMERICAN which is an old style burger and franks fast food restaurant. I've never been inside but it seems like the seating is mostly outside. We sat across a busy road at the edge of a strip mall parking lot. A few people honked and waved at us. The hardest part doing the sketch was smelling the food the entire time. We both resisted and didn't have anything to eat there.

Junk Food

As a theme this week the Patchogue Sketch Club worked on "Junk Food." Now I do believe that junk food is a misnomer...there is nothing junky about it and I believe it is more important than the basic food groups...or maybe it is the basic food groups. Yes, I can easily do without hot dogs, and maybe fries, but NOT pizza. Anyway, Mark provided reference photos for us to work from on Zoom. I had a few reference photos of my own since if I'm having a hotdog it has to have sauerkraut and mustard...not chili like his reference had. And I wanted to sketch real NYC pizza not something gourmet with spinach. The greatest travesty is that he left out dessert completely so I snuck a donut onto my page. If this doesn't make you hungry nothing will. lol

As one of our sketchers, Maureen Dunn posted the other night, "When Sketch Club meets for dinner—we all leave hungry."