I ended up filling a complete sketchbook on this trip, using both sides of most of the pages. The last blog post concluded with a night scene of a church in Jackson Square, where a wedding was taking place. After that, we wandered back through the throng of Mardi Gras celebrants to our hotel, and our room on the 8th floor, where I did my last sketch of the day, an intersection illuminated by street lights far below. There wasn’t much time for sketching on Sunday, just a view of patrons lined up for some Beignets at Cafe Dumonde, and some night time views from the freeway on our return journey, showing the traffic and the lights across the bay. Monday was a travel day, which means waiting and

We packed up and headed out to New Orleans for the weekend. It was a rainy Saturday morning. I was a passenger for once, so I had the opportunity to do some sketching during the ride. We went from Pensacola, through Alabama and Mississippi, and over and around bays, lagoons and waterways before finally arriving in the heart of the city where we checked in, ate lunch, and wandered around the French Quarter. We stopped at the Cigar Factory where I smoked a cigar, watched the rollers and did a quick sketch. It was getting late when I wandered over to the banks of the Mississippi and did a few quick sketches of the barges, tankers and cruise ships floating past. Finally, I made a very loose sket

It was early and still raining when we arrived at LAX. While we waited for our delayed flight (that was ultimately cancelled), I sketched the view from the waiting room. The trip was packed with delays, which allowed many opportunities to sketch the changing scenes and subjects including the control tower, the waiting room in Houston and the collection of regional jets waiting for passengers as it continued raining into the night. I did my traditional one-point perspective sketch of the view from the back of the plane. The last few sketches are of the house where we stayed, a freighter docked in Pensacola, and an old camping trailer. I had forgotten to pack a tube of white paint, and had a d