pause at the airport

Sacramento Airport

I’ve been travel-busy lately, so let’s start posting some sketches. I was at Sacramento airport, waiting for a delayed Friday early evening flight down to Los Angeles, where I’d be spending the weekend before a work trip to Riverside. As I had a bit of time I sat and had a pint at the airport bar, sketching the view opposite which included a newsstand sponsored by Sactown Magazine (see my previous post about my own appearance in Sactown). At this point the new edition featuring my sketches wasn’t on sale, but it was there on the way back a few days later along with the screen displaying pages. I don’t like airports (have I mentioned? Like a million times), but I don’t mind SMF, I’ve been through here enough times and it’s small, so it feels so familiar. Eventually I was able to board. My plan for Los Angeles was to do the following: (1) visit the Scum and Villainy Cantina in Hollywood, great place; (2) spend all Saturday drawing dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum; and (3) eat breakfast at the Original Pantry. I did all of those things (though the breakfast was more at lunchtime; a well-deserved lie-in!) and there’s sketches aplenty to come. After that, I was going to the UC-AMP Conference in Riverside and staying at the historic Mission Inn Hotel, and there are lots of sketches from there. As it is, cheers from the airport.

look who’s in Sactown

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Here is some exciting news! The current edition of Sactown magazine (March/April 2024) features a whole load of my sketches from Sacramento and Davis, going back from 2007 up to 2023. The feature is called “Where the Sidewalk Starts” and to see it all, grab a copy from your local newsagent (if you live round here). Here’s the Sactown magazine’s website: https://www.sactownmag.com/. (My sketches aren’t on the site).

The funny thing though, as I was coming back from a short trip to Southern California last Tuesday (Los Angeles and Riverside, I’ll post all my drawings once I’ve scanned them, there are a LOT) I was walking through Sacramento airport when I saw a big screen outside a newsagent, featuring pages from Sactown magazine, including many of those with my drawings on! That was a nice surprise. There was everyone, walking past basically a big version of my sketchbook. Anyway, if you should pick up the magazine, it’s a really good read.