The Metrodome Has Gone to the Dogs

The Metrodome had another indoor dog run yesterday. I never saw so many happy dogs. They don't get many opportunities to run around with other dogs since it has been below zero so much this winter.

I did a bunch of action sketches of dogs, but I really wanted to sketch a bulldog named Mabel. Mabel did not want to be sketched, but I managed get two sketches of Mabel, front and back.

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Grand Avenue in St. Paul

Roberta and I got paper and pen advice from our art guru Roz Stendahl at Wet Paint. Afterward's we walked down Grand Avenue a block to eat lunch at Shish. While we were digesting, we did some sketching. Roz did a great sketch of a car that moved befor she finished it. I am using my new 2009 journal (brown paper). Roberta also sketch on brown paper.

Roberta's sketch of people in Shish (click to enlarge the picture):



My sketch of a bike in snow:

Sketching With Andy Singer at the MoA and the Junkyard

Cartoonist Andy Singer has some free tickets to Underwater Adventures® Aquarium, in the Mall of America and he invited me to sketch with him . I took the LRT to the last stop in Bloomington and met him at the entrance. Here's one of the sketches I did of the transparent tunnel through the aquarium (click the picture to enlarge it):



Andy did some fun sketches of the creatures:





Last year Andy and I did some sketching at a junkyard called U Pull R Parts in Rosemount. It was a hot day but I did a few fun sketches... here's one:



Here's three great sketches by Andy: