National Night Out and the Magnolia Big Band

Each year with have our block party during National Night Out.  It brings our community together with one big party.  For the 7th year we are lucky to have the Magnolia Big Band practice during our block party and I have recorded this event for at least three years.

Here is this year's sketch is of the Magnolia Big Band.  I love sketching these guys.  It is fun to sketch  musicians playing their instruments.  This time I tried to do a simple ...almost blind contour drawing.  The first sketch was done in pencil and the second in pen.  It is amazing how little you have to sketch...to tell the story and give a sense of what is going on.