Hermans Bakery

When I was little my grandmother would always bring us marshmallow doughnuts from Hermans Bakery in Dundalk. I think it's the only place in Baltimore you can get doughnuts like that...it used to be a Baltimore institution with stores all over the city but now there's only one. I went recently to get a box of red velvet cupcakes which were really good. Everyone that worked there were older women.

Lunch with Michele

Went to lunch with Alain and his friend Michele. We started at the Mt. Royal Tavern and ended up in Fells Point at Ding How. He was telling me a little about what he did when he first came to the states- how he got a job as a cook just because he had a French accent.






On the way back.

Misc. Baltimore

Some miscellaneous sketches around Baltimore.


Re drew a sketch of Leroy.


Interior of my grandmothers house.


Party from a couple weeks ago.

Monster Jam World Tour 2010

On Saturday Monster Jam came to the Baltimore Arena.

There was a car called spider-man that looked like the car spider-man would drive.

Some colorful characters.


A car called Sampson that had fists on it.


The winning drivers gave their trophies out to fans at the end of the show.

Baltimore Boxers

Went to the Baltimore Boxing club above the Love Zone in Fells Point last Monday. They were very nice and let me sit in on some of their training sessions to sketch.

Trip to the Legg Mason Building

Tuesday I went to the Legg Mason building to pick up some material for another class I was in. So I took the subway.

But it got stuck and I was there waiting for about half an hour for it to come to the State Center station. There was some guy behind me on the platform who was complaining a lot about how the city doesn't know how to deal with snow. He sounded Russian.

Eventually I got there.

And there was a picket line out front of the Bank of America building across the street. I walked up to one of the people who was picketing and he told me they were upset that they weren't getting paid enough...and that they didn't have any food. Someone yelled "Don't be making any pictures...have the balls to ask, that's what this is about"

Then I went inside the building and up to the 12th floor and picked up the stuff I was supposed to get. I was curious so I took the elevator all the way to the top and looked around. There was a cafe up there and that was pretty much it. But then I found another door that said barbershop on it, and went up another flight of stairs and wouldn't you know there was a barbershop up there. Then I found a window and drew the view.

S(no)w Day

I did some sketching this week of the snow storm we had. The first two are of the traffic jams the snow caused. I saw a fire truck get stuck, and shortly after that a friend and I helped push an undercover cop out of the the snow. The last one is actually from a picture from awhile ago- right around the Domino Sugar plant- I though the name of the ship was appropriate.

This past Thursday 1/28

I was hanging out with a friend and we ran into this man outside of The Depot on North Charles Street. He said it was his birthday and he wanted some money for food, and that he also really wanted a blanket. My friend took him across the street to the BP and she bought him some food and cigarettes. He said it was the best birthday ever.

I'm going to do a more fleshed out piece- I need to go back to the BP and take some pictures. For now I did this portrait

Ellipse

Less is more, also in Mondawmin. And the man was singing:"I'm-a sitting here and thinking, drinking too, I got no real feeling but I got my blues, if you don't want to treat me right, the hell with you".

Turps

Turps on S. Charles St.

Lexington Market

Yesterday Alain and I met to scope out a beauty school to arrange a deal where we could go there and sketch people as they worked. The school was called Miracles Hair Salon on Howard street, and we got to speak with the vice-director Derald Queen. He said we would probably be able to come back and to get in touch with him soon. I also spoke with one of the students and gave her my info, she said she wanted to commission a portrait from me and that she liked my shoes. Unfortunately the salon was closing for the day so we went to Lexington Market instead where I did this sketch.