Basil Cafe

Rosebowl watching, Bayview Cash store, Basil cafe

Condiments in the dark=strange colors

Looking down/Bayview Cash Store

Sooja will be annoyed that I didn't straighten the lampshade!

So far this is my contribution to January.  The condiments were difficult to see at the Basil Cafe.  Their lighting is very dim.  It was fun to sketch from up on the second floor looking down.

Wednesday Sketching at Bayview

Basil Cafe has a large fish tank with a variety of active fish and other accessories inside the tank that made it a challenge to sketch along with a waitress in back ground preparing food.















Thank you, Diana, for being on the phone for sometime so I could sketch you today at Bayview.

There's one wall on the main floor at Bayview corner with an opening to other rooms that is dark with lights in the ceiling that create lovely values and shadows.

The Best Boss Ever: Sharon's Going Away Party

As I sketched this group of women on the deck of the Basil Cafe at Bayview Corner last Wednesday, I could tell something special was going on. There was a lot of laughter, excitement and hugging. As they were leaving, I found out they all worked at the Clinton Post Office and that it had been a going-away celebration for their boss, Sharon, the "best boss ever." They couldn't stop talking about what a great boss she was. She was retiring to Costa Rica . . . or was it New Zealand? Somewhere exotic sounding, anyway. Unfortunately Sharon is the only one at the table who didn't make it into the sketch. But her adoring employees thought she would love to see it. so I said I would post it on the blog.

Somebody show it to Sharon, OK?