Food Trucks Bastrop Sketch

Today was my day out.  I went to lunch with my friend, Susan, at Anita's.  Such a nice lunch.  I had a non alcoholic margarita, asked for lemonade and she asked it I wanted frozen.  Sure I replied and she brought a mason jar of "lemonade".  It tasted just like a margarita so maybe I got margarita mix.  It was delicious.  Must have had 800 calories, but worth it.  I ate a Puffy Taco.  I like those a lot.

After lunch I went over to the food truck plaza so I could sketch in the shade.  I had a latte and sketched for about an hour.  Then got some carnitas at El Fercho to take home for Gene.   I asked what Fercho meant and the waitress said it was a nickname for the owner Fernando.  Hmmm.  They have pretty good food their.  The carnitas was more like shredded pork like we put in tamales.  Usually carnitas are fried pork.  It was good.  I will add some red New Mexico chile for the leftovers.  Pep it up a little.

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Sketched in the older Ohuhu Mix Media sketchbook with Ohuhu pens and watercolors.  I put in the red letters with a Prismacolor pen when I got home.

I sketched toward the Moosebelly BBQ trailer (I wrote Mooseberry on the truck, guess I was thinking about the blueberries in their BBQ sauce.) and the Thai food trailer.  Neither was open.  Tuesday is probably a slow day.  The latte trailer shut down shortly after I got mine.  I guess they stay open only until lunch time.  The stage with the bench is wired with electricity and has small speakers up.  It is new to me.  It is about 20 x 12 feet, my perspective is off.  I added it after I did the trailers.  It should have been in first.  The back of the Moosebelly trailer is a screened in section and the think sticking out of the orange Thai truck is actually a blue pickup in the parking lot.  There were more flowers but I had been sketching about 45 minutes and needed to leave so quickly added the color.  

Gene had speech therapy and stayed with Pam, caregiver.   He also rode his stationary bike today.  Pretty busy, too.

Strange not to have a baseball game tonight.  Longhorns have one more regular season series with Missouri on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  After that there will be the conference tournament.  After that the Road to Omaha starts with Regionals, Super Regionals and the College World Series.  We shall see how the Horns do.  They have played well, only losing 12 of their 49 games.  One game was rained out.  Hook 'em Horns!  You can get more info here https://texaslonghorns.com/sports/baseball/

 

Full Sketch

Sketching took place today at PT for Gene.  I forgot my watercolors and brushes but did remember the sketchbook.  It was pretty nice outside but I didn't feel up to the wind and stayed inside.

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Number 1 full - a cup full of plastic flowers.  At first I thought they were real.  I picked them up to change the angle and realized they were silk/plastic, it was so lightweight.  the tag on the cup read, "You are the Berry Best".  A gift to the receptionist.  Fun.

I sketched in the new Ohuhu smaller sketchbook with an Ohuhu .7 pen.  I added the watercolor at home.

Mother's Day was nice.  Joanna, Jennie and Brandon came out to visit.  Joanna brought pizza for all .  Crazy, as we all had different pizzas.  Jennie and Brandon brought chocolate covered strawberries. Larry was working out of town and of course David and bunch are in Kentucky.

 

We played a round of Telefunken (a progressive rummy game I learned in Bolivia) and had some mocktail margaritas, by Top Hat in Austin.  (very unimpressive, made with kombucha and lots of other stuff)  They have caffeine in the tea.  Next time I will try making regular margaritas our way and use non alcoholic wine in place of tequila.  

Joanna brought another surprise.  She gave me a bluebonnet cup which was special on its own.  The real surprise is that it was made by Lou and Toby Baggett in Oklahoma.  Lou is Bag Blog here in comments and her blog, link in sidebar and you can find them on Instagram and Facebook or whatever it is now.    So unexpected!  I love it.

 

Sketch Pens

At PT yesterday I wanted to sketch my sketching pens.  I had a pack of Ohuhu pens so that was perfect.  I held them in my hand but decided not to include my fingers in the sketch.

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Number 5 used in my art - Ohuhu pens sketched in the Ohuhu Mix Media sketchbook with the Ohuhu 0.7 pen.