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4th Sunday of Advent at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Paducah, Kentucky.
Pen: Tombow
Sketchbook: Pentalic
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View from my hotel room in Paducah. Wanted to get the surrounding scene but drew the hotel too big. Will try again.
Pen: Sharpie
Watercolor and sketchbook: Field Artist.
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Outside an art studio in Manassas, Virginia
Pen: TWSBI ECO
Sketchbook: Moleskine
Watercolor: Field Artist.
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On Dec. 19, 1875, Serbian mathematician and physicist Mileva Marić was born. She was 2nd woman to study those disciplines at Zürich Polytechnic. She was also Albert Einstein’s first wife.
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Gainesville Medical Center, Virginia
Pen: Platinum Plaisir
Watercolor and Sketchbook: Field Artist
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On Dec. 19, 1875, Serbian mathematician and physicist Mileva Marić was born. She was 2nd woman to study those disciplines at Zürich Polytechnic. She was also Albert Einstein’s first wife.
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On July 25, 1894, Gavrilo Princip was born. His murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the archduke’s wife Sophie sparked WWI.
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Window at the Center for the Arts at the Candy Factory in Manassas, Virginia. Sketched as part of an UrbanSketching course by Todd Cumpston today.
Pens: Staedtler Fineliners and LAMY Joy
Watercolor: Field Artist
Sketchbook: Pentalic
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Working on developing a lighter touch to@my sketches.
Pen: TWSBI VAC700R
Sketchbook: Stillman & Birn Alpha
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On Nov. 17, 1820, Capt. Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. He was 21 years old. He later designed clipper ships.
Pen: TWSBI Eco and Vac700R
Watercolor: Field Artist
Sketchbook: Stillman & Birn
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On Nov. 22, 1744, Abigail Adams was born. She was the wife of President John Adams and the mother of President John Quincy Adams.
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Light pole at NOVANT Health parking lot in Haymarket, Virginia.
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Table in a waiting room
Pen: Arteza Roller Ball Pen
Sketchbook: Moleskine
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Today is Thanksgiving, the 4th Thursday in November. In 1939, President Roosevelt moved it a week earlier to help holiday sales. It was mockingly known as Franksgiving. Congress changes it back in 1941.
Pen: TWSBI Eco
Watercolor: Field Artist
Sketchbook: Stillman & Birn
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Emmy Noether was born March 23, 1882. She was a German mathematician, studying abstract algebra. Noether’s Theorem is important to mathematical physics.
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On July 25, 1894, Gavrilo Princip was born. His murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the archduke’s wife Sophie sparked WWI.
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Birthdays for 22 September ...
Anne of Cleves, 4th wife of Henry VIII; marriage annulled
Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian poet
Theodore Edward Hook, British writer, and recipient of the first postcard
Pen: TWSBI Vac 700R
Watercolor: Sakura Koi
Sketchbook: Stillman & Birn
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View from Cup of Pipers in Paducah, Kentucky
Pens: LAMY Safari and LAMY Joy
Watercolor: Field Artist
Sketchbook: Pentalic
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker “ premieres in St. Petersburg Dec. 18, 1892.
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On Aug. 22, Harry Frank Guggenheim was born. He confounded Newsday with his wife Alicia Patterson.
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Abandoned house in Haymarket, Virginia
Pen: LAMY Safari
Watercolor and Sketchbook: Field Artist
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The elephant in the room, in the waiting room of my massage therapist.
Pens: Copic Multiliner
Sketchbook: Moleskine
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Hilda James
British swimmer who competed in the 1920 Antwerp Summer Olympics
(Historic Bain News Service photo)
Pens: Staedtler Pigment Liners
Colored Pencils: Koh-I-Noor
Sketchbook: Moleskine
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On July 16, 1887, baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson was born. He was a member of the Chicago “Black Sox” who threw the 1919 World Series.
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From my window. Cosmas isn’t worried
Pen: LAMY Safari
Watercolor and Sketchbook: Field Artist
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Birthdays for 21January
Anna Morandi Manzolini, Italian anatomist
Sophia Jex-Blake, British physician and suffragist
Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter
Pen: LAMY Safari
Watercolor: Field Artist
Sketchbook: Stillman & Birn
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Summit Coffee Co. in Davidson, North Carolina
Pens: TWSBI VAC700R, Kuretake Brush Pen, and LAMY Joy
Watercolor: Field Artist
Sketchbook: Pentalic
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René Cassin was born Oct. 5, 1887. He was a French lawyer and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He co-authored the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
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Max Schwarz Cigars in New York City from historical photo by George Grantham Bain. 29th sketch for #Inktober2019.
Pens: Kuretake Brush Pen, TWSBI VAC700R, Paper Mate Flair, Sailor Fude, and LAMY Joy
Sketchbook: Stillman and Birn Beta
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Hyperion Espresso in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Pen: LAMY Safari
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Sketch of a trashcan in front of the Starbucks in Haymarket, Virginia
Pen: Lamy Vista
Sketchbook: Moleskine
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At the cinema.
Pen: Sharpie
Sketchbook: Stillman & Birn Alpha
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St. Thomas Aquinas statue on Basilica’s exterior
Pens: LAMY Safari and Paper Mate Flair
Sketchbook: Pentalic
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Noticed this large mushroom growing in my backyard. Urban sketches tend to have more of the surrounding environs, but how much grass do you need to see?
Pen: Lamy Al-Star
Watercolor and Sketchbook: Field Artist.
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George Sargon was born Aug. 31, 1884. He was a Belgian-American chemist and historian. He founded the discipline of the history of science.
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Bell Tower of the Basilica of the National Shrine to the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
Pens: TWISBI Vac 700R
Watercolor: Field Artist
Sketchbook: Pentalic
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Great coffee and cupcake at Inspired Cravings in Gainesville, Va.
Pen: LAMY Safari
Sketchbook and Watercolor: Field Artist
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On Nov. 19, 1862, William Ashley Sunday was born. Commonly known as Billy Sunday, he was a baseball player and Christian evangelist.
Pen: Copic
Watercolor: Field Artist
Sketchbook: Stillman & Birn
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The day’s events having my thinking of my time in Afghanistan.
Tried to do a single-line sketch Almost successful except for two times my arm fell off table and lifted pen.
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Bettina von Arnim was born April 4, 1785. She was a German writer, novelist, and composer.
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William Ernest Henley was born Aug. 23, 1849. He was an English poet who wrote “Invictus.”
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Elizabeth “Pinky” Topperwein
Shooting exhibitionist
(from historic Bain News Service photo)
Pens: Staedtler Pigment Liners
Colored Pencils: Koh-I-Noor
Sketchbook: Moleskine
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On Dec. 12, 1862, the Union ship USS Cairo sank on the Yazoo River. It was the first ship sunk by a mine remotely detonated by hand. It’s skipper was Lieutenant James M. Prichett.
Pens: Lamy Safari
Watercolor: Field Artist
Sketchbook: Stillman & Birn Zeta
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Parking lot in Warrenton, Virginia
Sketchbook: Moleskine
Pens: Copic Multiliners
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