Drawings From Photos and Drawing From Life

 This is my son and extra special daughter in law, who I now just refer to as my daughter, on their wedding day. Taken from a photo from that wonderful day. I maybe captured a tiny smidgen of their personalities. Maybe...

 ... and this is another attempt at drawing from a photo ...  and I'm hard pressed to say its a painting of my grand daughter because I don't think she has green eyes, but that's what this baby has. You can see her little hearing aide behind her ear there on the right.

And then I got back to LIFE at Taco's Jaliscos drawing from LIFE. I have to tell you I am eating something totally different there now since I shifted up my diet to a very grainy/veggie/fruity/non-dairy/non-meat way of eating. (See previous blog post about new eating regime) Carlos is grilling me red, yellow and green bell peppers and onions, adding them to a medley of rice and beans, lettuce, tomato topped with slices of avocado that is simply to die for! It's called a

burrito bowl.

(burrito without the tortilla)

So while I was there two days in a row this week I ate and drew these people also enjoying the wonderful Mexican fare.

I drew this one (above) in the light of day, but came home and painted it in the almost dark! LOL I bet you can't tell.

I like seeing our people in the service fields enjoying lunch here too. I wonder if he was thinking about where he might like to travel to in Mexico. I know when I drew the map this week I was remembering places I visited there 53 years ago! Holy Cow, was it really THAT LONG AGO?

I hope your week was as nutritiously tasteful and artfully creative as mine has been!

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Someone bought a copy of my book
One Fish Taco and Half an Order of Guacamole A Year of Drawing Over Lunch at Tacos Jalisco
yesterday!
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