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Check out the wealth of July 17th Sketch Crawl DC results on Flickr like this one above by the talented Ms. Graeber.

Also- Don't forget July 31st is International Sketchcrawl #28!

DC Sketch Crawlers will be meeting up at the Corchran Gallery of Art's "Corcoran Sketching in the Atrium!" event Noon to 3pm, July 31st.
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Or I won't consider you one of the cool kids anymore.

DC Sketch Crawl July 17th.

Elizabeth Graeber & Glory E have put together a Sketch Crawl for July 17th 'crawling from the Washington Monument all the way over to the National Zoo. With a stop at the Fojol brothers truck and a few other spots as well. Register (for free) over here, and join in.

Check out the schedule below!

Fojol Bros. of Merlindia

The Fojol Bros. of Merlindia have been part of a great trend of Food Trucks/Carts that has been growing in DC... and apparently everywhere else too. The Fojol Bros. have a few great things going for them.

1. An awesome truck.
2. They are a Traveling Culinary Carnival. It's a fact.
3. They have excellent mustaches. Nay, EPIC mustaches.
4. And not least, their food is excellent. Especially nice is that half their options are vegetarian friendly.

So I checked their twitter feed (@fojolbros) to see where they were today, and found them parked out in Adams Morgan at the 2nd Annual Kid Power Carnival. Which reminds me about another great aspect of what they do- a portion of their proceeds fund at-risk youth programs.

It almost makes one want to book a trip to Merlindia.

Violation

So last week I got it in my head that I would play a prank on a few co-workers who were out of the building with kids on a field trip. One of whom had a slight run in with the authorities regarding her lacking a visible parking permit. So I thought making a fake yet convincing ticket and putting it on their cars while they were out would be a great idea. So one afternoon I dove into Excel, found some legit looking icons and "ticket-speak" from the internets, and threw together what you see here.

Pretty good no? Some highlights include:

• $500.00 fine for Lewd and/or unsavory behavior (non-administrative).
• $7.24 fine for Administrative misconduct of a sexual vehicular nature.
• Possibility of Destaffing and/or rubber room status.
• Seizure of vehicle, income tax refunds or lottery winnings to satisfy unpaid fines.
• The fact that the school system doesn't have officers and doesn't give out tickets...
• All checks must be made payable to our Tech Specialist.

So my victims (mostly) hadn't actually quite noticed all the details to see it was a fake and one took it to my Assistant Principal... who called Security. But my AP got a kick out of it after the fact, and I think it's all cleared up. Now I just need to watch my back a little until I feel said victims aren't going to push me down the stairs, or slash my tires...

Kramerbooks

I had wanted to sketch Kramer's for a while, and had given it a shot a few weeks ago- but for one reason or another I just couldn't pull it off. So I made my way back to Dupont Circle today, found my spot again on a concrete island/bridge between/over traffic lanes and tried again. And actually finished it this time. And more than that, I an happy I didn't get dizzy and fall into the traffic going by just over the railing I was working on.

DC Sketchcrawl #27. May 15, 2010.

We gathered up for Sketchcrawl 27 at the Brookland Metro stop this time around. With a few more sketchers with us since last crawl we started our way around a neighborhood and part of DC that was unknown to me until now. We were luck to have Dan & Frederick to show us around. And especially to have Dan fill us in on the history of the area.

Our first stop was on a main strip, with lots of shops... and that sketch isn't quite done yet, so I'll have to post it later. We had a very nice lunch and headed to the beautiful Franciscan Monastery, of which I only saw a very small part of. Though, what I did see what absolutely beautiful.

Our next stop was Howard U School of Divinity that has fantastic building pictured here with amazing sculptures on its exterior.

These are always a lot of fun- I'll be sad to miss the next one in July.

May 15th.

Saturday, May 15th.
10:30am.
Brookland Metro Station.