sweet fanny ann
December 14, 2009 4 Comments
A little pause in the London sketches – I’m about halfway through now so still many more to come! Here is my first drawing since coming back to the US: Fanny Ann’s Saloon in Old Town Sacramento.
I had to go to Sac to do a spot of Christmas shopping. And it absolutely peed down with rain. I had intended on stopping by here on the way home to maybe catch a sketch, but the enormous rainstorm meant I had a bit more time to do so. This is one of the most sketchable pubs in this part of California – there is so much paraphernalia to draw, hanging from the walls and rafters. I will draw more of that some time. It’s a little touristy, being in the middle of the old Gold Rush era cowboy town, but it’s friendly and a nice pit-stop. And the beer is good too.
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Haven’t been to Fanny Ann’s since I moved from Sack-O-Tomatoes sixteen years ago. Wonderful drawing! It brought a great little tavern right back to me.
cheers mike!
i remember that place well. i was talking to a woman there from new orleans who said she lost everything in hurricane Katrina. She never lost her moustache though
Haha, that’s right i remember now. We were sat over there near the ‘Bud’ sign.