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Along the Altamaha River at Darien. This was our first stop on our recent trip to coastal Georgia. October 28, 2017 Read more about it: www.urbansketchers.org/2017/11/georgia-shrimp-boats.html
On Little Saint Simons Island, a barrier island off the southern coast of Georgia, the maritime forest opens onto the marsh. Early November 2017.
More about my recent time there www.urbansketchers.org/2017/11/color-or-not-last-visit-to...
Preparatory sketch for a larger Neocolor II wax pastel drawing. flic.kr/p/prhUM3 September 28, 2014
See more about this alleyway in my Urban Sketcher Blog post www.urbansketchers.org/2014/10/south-then-north-same-ceda...
These were hard to resist at the Saturday farmers market. Last chance to sketch before being julienned and sautéed for lunch. 5B pencil for the contour, then something I rarely use: watercolor pencils.
;) Just being daft. This is a camera for being silly and not taking oneself seriously. I think.
Kodak Vision 3 200T
35mm
Olympus Pen EE-3 Twin Frame Camera
Testing it with an #85b filter (Homemade with Theatre Lighting Gel cut out and put on top of Blue Tac placed around just rim of Lens)
1:3.5 D.Zuiko 28mm Lens
Manual Shooting Mode with Sunny 16 Rule
f11 and the Fixed Shutter Speed 1/40
Taking into account the allowance for the filter reducing the amount of light entering the lens. Exposure seemed about right 1.5 stops up from ideal/equivalent of about f11 1/125 for 200T with a #85b filter. Usually shoot at 1/3 stop up (125iso) to allow more light into film.
Developed with Bellini C41 Kit
On a north fork of the Cedar River at the Center Street Bridge, there is a large eagle's nest high up in a riverfront tree. Once the leaves are off the trees, it's easily viewed from the Brown Bottle Restaurant parking lot. It's been inhabited for many years.Today, on my way to draw at Black Hawk Park, I saw the bald eagle pair perched side by side. November 3, 2019
On the Yellow Line train, returning home from San Francisco, the child was with two women. First sketch of a new pocketsize Moleskine. December 18, 2024
Part of a series and a story about this smokestack, which is the tallest structure in my town. May 2018. See it here: www.urbansketchers.org/2018/05/tall-stack-small-town.html
Many apple trees grow on the boulevard between the sidewalk and the street in my old town Cedar Falls, Iowa neighborhood. This tree holds onto much of its fruit into the winter. My husband and I sample the fruit from trees that grow on public property. These are the best apples. November 15, 2015
Blogged on Urban Sketchers Midwest urbansketchers-midwest.blogspot.com/2015/11/apple-tree-on...
Part of a series and a story about this smokestack, which is the tallest structure in my town. May 2018. See it here: www.urbansketchers.org/2018/05/tall-stack-small-town.html
15 Aug 2021
Attending a car and coffee event. My reason in being there was to sketch the cars. But sketching them was intimidating so I started with palm trees.
moleskine watercolor pocketsize
This third and final tour of Dr. Syntax in search of a wife is accompanied by twenty-five colored illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson.
Old cars are treasures to many in Cedar Falls. This was lead-up to the following wax pastel drawing. April 14, 2016. The wax pastel flic.kr/p/Go7zdp
While my 2019 Subaru was at the C & S dealership in Waterloo for a recall tweak, I found this vintage auto in their showroom. Fun subject, although as any car expert of this era would recognize, there's problems with the angle of the hood ornament. June 3, 2021
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We were hoping for ramen soup since it was cold and rainy outside but they did not have ramen soup anymore. So we opted for the bento box lunches.
Moleskine pocketsize watercolor sketchbook
There were 2 wood storks standing in the slough alongside of South Pond on Little Saint Simons Island, until 1 flew up into a tree. I love drawing the fan-shaped leaves of the saw palmettos that are prevalent on this barrier island off the southern coast of Georgia. April 1, 2014
At the Iowa State Fair Swine Barn. August 16, 2016. Find out more about my day at the Fair www.urbansketchers.org/2016/08/longest-beard-fattest-boar...
Read the story that goes with the drawing: Cataract surgery at a small city hospital www.urbansketchers.org/2018/01/cataract-surgery-at-small-...
A minute or 2 sketch from a family outing. October 12, 2013
See photo and more from this outing on Urban Sketchers Midwest urbansketchers-midwest.blogspot.com/2013/10/apple-picking...
BART train to San Fransisco from Lafayette Station. Everyone looking downward, engaged with their handheld device. December 12, 2023
From the 2nd floor window of our rental house on Perio Point in the lobster fishing village of Beals, a boat was docked for repair. August 26, 2014
See this and others from Beals blogged on Urban Sketchers www.urbansketchers.org/2014/09/downeast-maine-beals-coast...
There are very few houses in my Cedar Falls neighbor that break the mold by having a flamboyant paint job. August 24, 2017. Read how this reflects the nature of my Iowa hometown www.urbansketchers.org/2017/08/pink-and-chartreuse-in-iow...
What a beautiful breed of cattle. Here, a cow taking a catnap in the Cattle Pavilion at the Iowa State Fair 2019.
www.urbansketchers.org/2019/09/prized-animals-at-iowa-sta...
Outside my kitchen window, there are seldom used vehicles parked in a snow-covered vacant lot across the street. This classic blue Ford pick-up has been there for months, filled with junk. Inside, sitting on the counter, gaudy, parrot tulips in a pot of forced bulbs. February 19, 2013
Continuing on with my Inside/Outside Series flic.kr/s/aHsjzn7No8
The Ancestral Pueblo people lived in this rugged canyon in the Jemez Mountains from approximately 1150 CE to 1550 CE. It's now a national monument. On this day, during our 2 week visit to the Santa Fe area, it rained. This sketch in my pocket-size Moleskin was all I could do. I would love to be able to sketch here again someday. October 22, 2015
In Las Vegas for an overnight, we walked down The Strip and saw the Mirage Volcano erupting. Hokey and thrilling. March 7, 2016. Read all about it www.urbansketchers.org/2016/03/the-strip-at-dawn-from-36t...
Bronze sculpture by Monika Kaden, located in a side courtyard of the Cathedral Church of St. Francis of Assis in Santa Fe, New Mexico. May 9, 2017
Check out my full post on the USkBlog from a two week stay in Santa Fe, New Mexico. May 12, 2017
www.urbansketchers.org/2017/05/dancing-st-francis-mesmeri...
Part of a series and a story about this smokestack, which is the tallest structure in my town. May 2018. See it here: www.urbansketchers.org/2018/05/tall-stack-small-town.html
At the Sunday Maku'u Craft & Farmers Market, 10 miles from where we stayed near the town of Pahoa on Big Island, Hawai'i, I asked a fruit vendor if I could buy one of the two long stemmed bouquets of anthurium that lay across her display of green papaya. No, she replied, they were gifts and not for sale. Is the person who gave them a seller here? I asked. Yes, but she's left. Disappointed, I continued, I was hoping to paint them. Without hesitation, she handed me one of the two bunches. ALOHA, she beamed. I felt I had been blessed. July 14, 2014
This was the 1st of 3 drawings I would do of this very special bouquet. It's always a challenge to apply watercolor to the pocket-size Moleskine paper--it tends to repel versus absorb.
Several weeks ago a car jumped the curb in a traffic accident in my neighborhood, plowing over a young pear tree planted on the boulevard. I took some of the dormant branches and brought them indoors, and put them in water to see if the tree would bloom one last time indoors. It did! Here the lead up quick sketch as lead up to a color work. February 20, 2016
Hydrangeas were blooming in everyone's yards in coastal and inland Maine. Blooms the size of a child's head and larger! A woman who lived down the lane from us offered to cut some from her garden. From the kitchen window, Hopkins Point Lobster (the curved dike of its lobster pound and its more distant dock and building) are seen. August 24, 2015
See more about drawings from this trip on the Urban Sketchers Blog www.urbansketchers.org/2015/09/discovering-bones-of-drawi...