Feathered Friends

This week we sketched at Your Basic Bird, an institution in the Elmwood district of Berkeley for decades.  While Claudia and the knowledgeable staff gave advice to customers and clipped the birds' toenails, we drew.  Birds are surprisingly good models!

Colored pencil

Third Thursday in the Elmwood

The Elmwood shopping district in Berkeley stays open late on the third Thursday of the month.  We met there, joined by Charlotte, an urban sketcher from Paris, who arrived on the bicycle she had bought in California.  Here's part of the display in the window of Mrs. Dalloway's, a wonderful independent bookstore opened in 2004 by two longtime friends and residents of the Elmwood.