This was a wonderful festival last summer in Sacramento. It felt like home 🙂
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Travel to PA/NJ/NY in December
I can get really bored on a 5 hour plane ride. Especially when we have an extra 1.5 hours to stop to refuel (in beautiful Salt Lake City). Started these pen and inks at the Museum of Natural History in NY and at the Metropolitan. Painted them on the plane. I got a little carried away but it was fun.
Yosemite!
I took a wonderful, inspiring workshop at the Yosemite Art Center in September with Janet Takahashi. It was a whole week but I was only able to go to the morning of the first day. But I got really jazzed with her techniques and her beautiful work. I’d really like to go for the full week next year.
I met another watercolor artist at this spot. He gave me a bunch of tips for painting and promoting my work. I haven’t done many landscapes and am learning new techniques from an old book that belonged to Uncle Miki (Z”l). It’s taken me a couple of months but I finally finished this piece. 
Miscellaneous Sketches 2016
Three legged chicken at Palisades Amusement Park. Tobie, do you remember this?
When I was a kid, I went with Tobie and Dad to Palisades Amusement Park. Tobie really wanted to go to the Freak Show but I was too scared. When I asked her how they got a three-legged chicken, she said, “I don’t know—they paste another one on?”
This kangaroo mouse guy keeps showing up in my illustrations. Here he is about to leap off a building. But his cousin is relaxing under a tree while listening to some music.
Here’s the scene at the Salon in Corte Madera. Sketching is something to do while I’m waiting for the color to set.
Bolinas house over the water. It’s the most picturesque place in town as far as I’m concerned. Love it!
Harvey and Eli gave us a concert after dinner at Thanksgiving. They played a great duet! Harvey is a virtuoso clarinetist. And he kinda looks like Benny Goodman :).
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2016
I always anticipate the annual HSB Festival in San Francisco. Such a gift to our City and to everyone who loves music. This year was wonderful, as always.
During Mavis Staples’ set on Friday night, we sat near this striking looking woman. She woman didn’t smile or change expression the whole time. the
We wondered what she was thinking.
Saturday, we got there early to hang at the Arrow stage where KT Tunstall was the first act. Never heard her name before but we knew some of her hits. Great fun!
I love the excitement of HSB. Everyone is friendly and happy. The couple next to us came from Scotland for the festival. I also met a woman from North Carolina who is anxious to see Jackson Browne. The many colorful characters of San Francisco have converged on the park.
Our Family Band
Were’ starting to have some musical parties during the holidays. This was from a photo I took at Dee and Reid’s—I think it was the first day of Pesach. Max and Eli are going at it. Cousin Steve in the background. Mucha fiesta at the Edelman’s! Looking forward to more of these moments.
Chico Pinhiero at the Howlings
Fantastic Brazilian guitarist Chico Pinhiero played today at the Howlings in Healdsburg. I did my best to capture him here.
Cuba 2016
Paintings from our trip to Cuba in February and March.
No Coasters at the Howlings
We went to see the wonderful No Coasters a few weeks age at the Howlings up in Healdsburg a few weeks ago. These native mid-westerners, Lee Bloom (piano), Brandon Essex (bass) and Carrie Jahde (drums) played fantastic jazz. They played a smokin’ version of Epistrophy. Go see them–they are fantastic! Thank you Kellie and David for hosting another great concert.
I couldn’t help but draw while the music pulled me along. Here are my renditions.
My dad gave me a wonderful book of New Yorker illustrations by the incomparable Saul Steinberg. I’ve been poring over this coffee table book for the past month and his style sank into these drawings of the musicians. I love the way Steinberg includes words, numbers and punctuation in his drawings and his line are simple and whimsical but his work is genius. 
Suzine II 