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On the walk back to town 2008-07-05 01:10:00 I was stunned by the light as I passed a little opening in between houses. I stopped in my tracks on the sidewalk and made this sketch propping everything I could on my forearms and in between fingers. A man walked by and asked if I was waiting for the bus. There's a bus on this little street, I thought? Do I look like I'm waiting for a bus?
Falmouth Beach 2008-07-04 01:15:00 Just as I had set up my field kit, some teenagers flopped down with their towels and frisbee directly in my line of sight. Oh, well, I thought.... It's more important for them to relax and have fun at the beach than it is for me to make a little sketch. But I proceeded anyway and sort of guessed a bit. It really was too windy to do much with lots of sand flying about.This sketch kept reminding Read more:Beach
Quick Clouds 2008-07-03 01:15:00 These may not look like clouds but that's what they are. When I saw what I'd done, I thought, O.K., closed the sketch book and headed to a more protected space for a little watercoloring.
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No title 2008-07-02 01:15:00 It was a very windy day with a strong drive from off shore — a little too intense for a small kite on a narrow beach.
Looking for a flat rock 2008-06-30 01:10:00 Just as I was getting settled on the jetty, thinking about what to paint, I was suddenly swarmed by a young family with many boys looking for flat rocks to skip on the ocean. This little crab hand was the first one out to the end of the jetty and moved incessantly. That seagull saw him coming and was just about to lift off.
Towards Woods Hole 2008-06-29 01:15:00 The very first thing I always want to do any time I'm near the sea is to get right to the water's edge as quickly as I can. I found a spot on a jetty at Falmouth beach my first morning and made this sketch looking in the direction of Wood's Hole.
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Waiting for chicken salad 2008-06-28 18:30:00 There was absolutely nothing to this scene. I was sitting in the car, waiting for my friend to pick up dinner and hell bent on sketching something. Anything. So here was the parking lot in North Falmouth, Massachusetts. I wasn't able to finish the sketch as my friend was too quick for me and anxious to get home with the hot goods.
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Walnut Trees 2008-07-21 19:54:00 Home again. To walnut trees in full foliage. These are a trio that loom high from the yard across the back alley. I have three more on my property. Most, I think, planted by squirrels.
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Green Airport 2008-07-17 01:15:00 Waiting to leave Providence, Rhode Island. Ah, it was good to get away. I'll have to do this more often.
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No title 2008-07-16 01:15:00 Big news in the Boston Globe over breakfast at the Brewster Coffee Shop. Pepe, the African Wattled Crane at the Franklin Park Zoo took no interest in his arranged mating with blind date, Kotze. I mean, really. What do they expect? That any member of the opposite sex will do? With people looking on?
Linnell Landing 2008-07-15 01:15:00 My last morning on Cape Cod found me bayside at Linnell Landing in Brewster. High tide left only a soft, slanted path along the water's edge and I sank with every step.
Marconi Point 2008-07-14 01:15:00 As a general rule, I make it a point to spend time on the beach between sunrise and 10 AM and then late in the afternoon through sunset. However, I had very limited time and only managed to get to the national seashore on Cape Cod around noon when the light was blindingly bright and I set myself up for a crispy sunburn on my back. Nonetheless, I was glad to be there and scribbled this bit of the
Gropius House 2008-07-11 01:15:00 I took a long awaited swim across Walden Pond just before a second round of severe thunderstorms. I made it back to my car before the torrential rains but had to pull off the road nearby because the roads were flooding. Fortunately, I was at the Walter Gropius house driveway and pulled in to make a sketch from the car. I had to keep the engine on and the windshield wipers going at full tilt. U Read more:House
Main Streets Market 2008-07-10 01:10:00 Before a meeting at the Thoreau Society, I grabbed a sandwich at Main Streets Market
in Concord and made this sketch while waiting.
Tang Horse 2008-07-09 01:12:00 The MFA Boston has a remarkable, larger than life painted wood Bodhisattva in its collection. When I lived in Boston, I used to go to the museum to just sit before the very strong presence of the statue. It's been in storage now for years but I always go to see if they've brought it back. Not yet. But they do have a nice collection of glazed earthenware horses in the same area. This horse fro Read more:Horse
Eggplant 2008-08-06 15:27:00 I belong to an organic farm out in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee and pick up my share at a drop off location about five minutes from my house on Monday afternoons. Monday evenings I spend washing, preparing and storing my vegetables. I don't do much with eggplant, frankly, but thought these were worthy of a little sketch. Here I filled in the ink with watercolor pencils on rather unforgiving s
White Chiffon 2008-08-04 01:15:00 Back to the present and a quick line drawing from my garden. This is a beautiful white blossom from a freshly planted Rose of Sharon hibiscus along the side of my studio. I bought five plants of three varieties on clearance a couple of weeks ago at a local garden shop. Two of these white chiffon, two more with violet blooms and one with a deep blue bloom. Originally $20, I paid $1.95 for each Read more:White
, Chiffon
Tombstone Tree 2008-08-01 03:07:00 This 1999 sketch is of a headstone in the Charleston Unitarian Church cemetery yard. The roots of the nearby tree have become one with the tomb of Ephraim Seabrook Mikell, "A favorite with all who knew him". Wouldn't that be a nice thing for someone to say about you after your death?So ends my little series of lost (no more) 1999 sketches from Charleston.
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Unitarian Church 2008-07-31 02:00:00 When I lived in Charleston, I frequently cut through the Unitarian Church
side yard. The King Street entrance was overgrown, lush and mysterious, giving way to the cemetery yard and finally to the treeless, glaringly bright Archdale Street entrance.This 1999 sketch is from the cemetery yard.
St. John's 2008-07-30 02:57:00 This sketch from 1999 is of St. John's steeple in Charleston, South Carolina.
St. Michael's and the Post Office 2008-07-29 06:00:00 Here's another of the 1999 Charleston sketches I unearthed the other night. They will make up my posts here this week.
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The Four Corners of Law 2008-07-28 14:42:00 I was rooting through some boxes for family photos last night and came across a few pen and inks from Charleston that I made a little over 9 years ago. Since I'm still posting Charleston paintings on The Grand Tour, I thought I'd post a handful of these steeple sketches. This must have been the preliminary sketch for The Four Corners
of Law.Celebrate Beatrix Potter's birthday at My Great Day.
Sunflower Patch 2008-07-23 06:54:00 If you follow My Great Day, you might remember that I lost a large mulberry stump and an 80' Hackberry tree this past year. In April, I planted some sweet broom, red-tipped photinia and elaegnus along the naked space. A neighbor up the street gave me extra sunflower seedlings that I planted along the wire space. Here you can see that they've shot up mightily, banked by another hefty patch of po Read more:Sunflower
, Patch
No title 2008-08-07 15:12:00 The most wonderful corn I've ever eaten. At the farm drop, one of the guys said, "Eat it right off the cob, just like that!" I thought, you have got to be kidding me. Without cooking it first? Sure enough, the next morning, I ripped off the leaves and silk and sunk my teeth in. Yum. I haven't cooked an ear since. But I brought home so many last week, I'll have to learn how to freeze the
Two Pears 2008-09-12 14:18:00 PencilThese are some quick studies I made for one of my drawing students this morning as we ran through exercises in different mediums. Now, I can put them out to eat!PastelCharcoalPen and ink with washI did not get around to moving the pears before the afternoon sun, now in it's dramatic autumn slant, bathed them in a gorgeous light. (The morning light was very subtle). Come see my photograph o
No title 2008-09-05 17:15:00 My private drawing student is working on birds so I worked along on one with her this morning. Lots of graphite on the page here and I had to give the scanner glass a good wipe down after scanning. Lots of hand washing, too. But fun.
after Pissaro 2008-09-01 15:40:00 I am about to start new drawing classes and lessons and think that it's about time to put my own self back in the saddle in any way I can. This is a quick, edited study of a Pissaro that came to hand about the same time as my sketchbook and pencil.
Looking Southwest 2008-09-17 22:17:00 After drawing class at Cheekwood this morning, I was so hooked into drawing that I continued to do so, on and off, for the rest of the afternoon. When I manage to get the right sketch books to the scanner, I'll show you one or two. For now, here's the last I made in my back yard, as the sun was setting. If you've been following my blogs, you'll recognize this scene. It's a section of my favori Read more:Southwest
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