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Dutch language vintage pocketsized magazine for adults: Mistralreeks nr. 18: de moordende roulette by Jean Malaparte. Published by Uitgeverij Cultus, Edegem-Antwerpen, Belgium in about mid 50's.
These homes on stilts are located along the canal that leads to the Gulf of Mexico.
watercolor and pen
Moleskine watercolor sketchbook, pocketsize
New Redeemer Lutheran Church is on the edge of a low-lying neighborhood near where I live in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The shadows on the grass propelled me to draw here. Once the leaves come out fully the steeple will not be visible. This was the compositional sketch, leading in to a more developed drawing that I did on-site the same day. April 27, 2015
It's only Experiment Day again here at id-iom! This time we've gone and got our grubby little mitts on a big bottle of liquid latex. It's funny what can happen when you're at the art shop. Let's just leave it at that. Rather than having any highfalutin ideas we just got stuck in on some small wooden pieces to see where the process would lead us. After painting and applying latex they then had to be left for a full day for the latex to dry. Then comes the fun part of peeling the latex off and seeing what abstract creation has been produced. I like the fact they look a bit like psychedelic maps of imagined worlds.
Anyway, they're robust, pocket-sized (at 17 x 12 cm) and super practical for those times when you really need to have an abstract piece of art immediately to hand. Plus the pretty colours are soothing. So they've pretty much got it all. Drop us a line if you need one in your pocket or they'll be making their way to our website in due course (www.id-iom.com).
Cheers
id-iom
Parallel Road skirts the salt marsh on the north end of Little Saint Simons Island, going in and out of the woods--live oak draped with Spanish moss and ferns, palm and pine trees, an understory of palmettos. This is a preparatory sketch for a Neocolor II wax pastel that follows. December 10, 2013
At the Museum of Fine Arts Boston exhibit Goya Order and Disorder. November 25, 2015. See the link in comments below for my post on Urban Sketchers International about this exhibit.
The glasses that I've worn every day for the past 6 years broke in half. :-/ Luckily, I had an extra pair in waiting that I might learn to love just as well. January 17, 2013
Peabody Memorial Library is only open a few days a week. A refuge, as libraries are, just the same. August 25, 2015
After leaving Little Saint Simons Island, we spent a few hours on Saint Simons Island before leaving for the Jacksonville, Florida airport and home to Iowa. This cemetery, even with the no-see-ums biting at my ankles, was a delightful place to pass the time. This is a preliminary sketch for the watercolor. April 3, 2014
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument on the Pajarito Plateau near Santa Fe. There are fantastical geologic forms left from volcanic events about 6-7 million years ago. Here a hoodoo--a pumice and tuff pillar, capped with a boulder. October 26, 2015 There are other remarkable landforms in this part of New Mexico that we visited in late October. Find out more though my Urban Sketchers post www.urbansketchers.org/2015/11/new-mexico-remarkable-land...
My husband looking out from the pristine rock shoreline on Beals Island to the water dotted with lobster buoys. September 1, 2015
See more about drawings from this trip on the Urban Sketchers Blog www.urbansketchers.org/2015/09/discovering-bones-of-drawi...
A detail of the Old Depot on Main Street in Cedar Falls, Iowa. I'm getting ready to do a commissioned drawing of this historic old train station. Today, I started the process of zeroing in on what interests me. March 21, 2015
Lobster fishing is a mainstay of the economy in Jonesport, Maine where we stayed for 2+ weeks. Hopkins Point Lobster was seen the house where we stayed. A dike cordons off a "pound" which is a tidal regulated holding pond where lobster caught from the surrounding waters are kept until the market value for lobster is high. The small building on the more distant wharf marks the end of Hopkins Point. It's where the lobster fisherman bring their catch. August 27, 2015
See more about drawings from this trip on the Urban Sketchers Blog www.urbansketchers.org/2015/09/discovering-bones-of-drawi...
One week later to have the stitches removed, the worst is behind me. The only good thing about televisions in waiting rooms is that everyone seems to face in the same direction watching. And I can draw them and they don't seem to notice what I'm doing! September 23, 2014
Over Thanksgiving, we stayed in an apartment in Brookline, Massachusetts. November 30, 2014
This was part of a Blog post for Urban Sketchers Midwest urbansketchers-midwest.blogspot.com/2014/12/trying-to-be-...
At the Air Line Snack Bar on Highway 9, on the way to Cherryfield, Maine from Orono. The Air Line Highway has nothing to do with airplanes. It was built in 1839 and considered the most direct route from east to west down the Maine coast. The other route was the Shore Line Highway. This snack bar is a must stop for fried-on-the-griddle wild blueberry muffins. The men across the u-shaped counter from me were drinking coffee, waiting for their lobster rolls. They were visiting from Dublin, Ireland. August 24, 2014
April 21, 2019
I took a walk along the UCD Arboretum and spotted this tree with its white blossoms. The challenge is to how to capture the whiteness of the blossoms. White gouache with very dark background.
Pentalic Aqua Journal, pocketsize
A walk in the wash surrounded by canyon walls: a new definition of horizon line.
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Day 17
We call it the witch's tower. The Willoughby House, a classic Victorian Italiante, commands a corner lot one block away. I see the tower from my 2nd floor east-facing window. Later in the day, I did a larger drawing of this view, before the snow melted from the roofs. flic.kr/p/dZWnvP
It snowed all night and into the morning. March 5, 2013
Take a look at my story on Urban Sketchers Midwest: Unrelenting Winter, Waiting for Spring
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Water for the city of Prescott, Arizona comes from the Verde River and is collected in water tanks on top of numerous in-town hills. Water is scarce. Prescott's rapid expansion has left the Verde River much diminished down river, leaving smaller communities and wildlife wanting. June 29, 2013
Chihuahua spotted whiptail lizard. Lizards–some bigger than others, like this one–are common in New Mexico. This one was in a cage at a nature center in Los Alamos. May 7, 2017
Pen : Lamy Safari Charcoal Fountain Pen Extra Fine Nib
Ink : Noodler’s Ink Polar Black
Material : Moleskine Pocket Size Watercolour Notebook
An un-occupied cottage on Little Saint Simons Island, a barrier island off the southern coast of Georgia. October 31, 2017
More about my recent time there www.urbansketchers.org/2017/11/color-or-not-last-visit-to...
Egrets huddled on a dead branch hanging over Mosquito Creek. One ibis stands on another branch nearby. A vulture flies over. January 7, 2016
Sketching my fellow BART passengers, on my way to and from my daughter's. I never know how long I'll have before they reach their stop. November 21, 2025
We stayed for 2 weeks in a house on Kapoho Bay in the SE of Big Island, Hawai'i. The 2nd floor kitchen window of this Balinese designed house slid open the full width of the room. The Pacific was just beyond the seawall below. The roar of the ocean was a constant presence. The fruit grown on the island was sublime--here, pummelo, passion fruit, papaya, Meyer lemon, grapefruit, and banana. July 6, 2014
One of the iconic Spanish Colonial Revival arches of this landmark building in downtown Santa Barbara, California. February 6, 2015
Oranges growing on trees in the backyard of our rental house for a week! As a Midwesterner, this is like Eden. April 24, 2013
Finished drawing flic.kr/p/eh1ywF
The woman dozing in the seat across the aisle on the flight from Chicago to Boston. January 24, 2015
Jack Graham was a clarinetist extraordinaire. He was a demanding and heart-full teacher and mentor at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. On June 13, 2015, family, former students, colleagues and friends gathered from far and wide to mourn Jack's untimely passing and rejoice in his contribution to us all by preforming lots of great music. My daughter, Aviva, studied clarinet with him when she was in high school and went onto major in clarinet performance as an undergraduate.
On site drawing of a grocery store with a fountain pen filled with Noodler’s Ink – Polar Black bulletproof ink.
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The Hunting Lodge on Little Saint Simons Island has been used as a gathering place since the early 1900s when the Berolzheimer family made the island their private retreat. January 8, 2016
So historic.
Tim Wallace bought a historic inn in rural Oakford just as it was about to be torn down, and has spent countless hours making it habitable again.
Tim Wallace has had a penchant for antiques since he was a boy.
“I’ve been collecting bottles and jars for as long as I can remember,” said Wallace, 48.
Today, Wallace displays his treasures in the restored inn where he and his wife, Charlyn, and teenage daughter, Leighann, live in rural Oakford as well as in an 1800s log cabin that he dismantled, moved and rebuilt on his property.
“It’s hard to imagine living anywhere else,” he said of his home on Whites Crossing Avenue.
Wallace bought the historic brick building in 1988, just as it was about to be torn down, and spent countless hours making the former stagecoach stop habitable again.
“It was in such bad shape. My dad came over and said, ‘Call me when it’s done,’” Wallace said, laughing.
Long history
According to Wallace, Ebenezer Robinson purchased and expanded a mill near the fork of Little Grove and Clary creeks in the late 1830s, attracting trade from miles around. Realizing in the early 1840s the need for overnight accommodations, the miller and his son, James Madison Robinson, constructed the two-story inn, molding and firing the bricks on site.
Other businesses — a general store, saloon, blacksmith’s shop and more — sprung up in the tiny settlement, which became known as Robinson’s Mill.
“This was the place for everyone to meet and congregate,” Wallace said, noting that a doctor’s office and post office once occupied a room on the inn’s lower level.
Postmaster and blacksmith John Bonnett, who’d helped build the inn, eventually became owner. By 1872, however, Robinson’s Mill — then referred to as Bobtown, — had disintegrated much like its neighbor New Salem, as residents moved north to the newly platted village of Oakford.
The inn remained in the Bonnett family for years. But it had been vacant for some time when Wallace bought it.
“The walls were falling in; the floors were gone; the windows were busted out. It was horrible,” said Wallace, who grew up near the establishment and thought as a kid that it was “haunted.”
The Wallace family, which includes 25-year-old twins Nicholas and Christine, moved into Tim’s childhood home while the inn was renovated.
“There was no kitchen, no cabinets, no bathroom,” he said. “It was just like it was when it was built.”
Among other things, Wallace replaced floor joists, installed pine flooring that he salvaged from a hayloft and put in a bathroom. Mike Schoonover of Kilbourne tuck-pointed the exterior and Jeff Freeman, who no longer lives in the area, did the plumbing and electrical work.
“It was unbelievable to put plumbing and heating in, because all the walls are brick, and I didn’t want to lower the ceilings to put in ductwork,” Wallace said. “It was not an easy job.”
In all, Wallace worked “for about a year and 30 days so we could get moved in” to the residence, which has three rooms on each floor. A former summer kitchen at the rear of the home was converted into a den.
The first few winters in the inn were tough, because Wallace didn’t know how difficult it would be to heat the place.
“I can’t imagine living here in the 1840s and trying to keep warm with these fireplaces,” said Wallace, who now relies on a boiler as well as wood for heat.
Period decor
Antique cupboards, cases, desks and other furniture showcase an array of Galena pottery, Menard County souvenir china, early postcards and currency, medicine bottles, vintage kitchenware, advertising pieces, tins and other objects, while colored- and clear-glass seltzer bottles line the front windowsills.
The walls are adorned with framed portraits, paintings, “chain pictures,” glass canes and old public sale notices or “broadsides.” Hunting trophies, including a turkey and wild boar, also are displayed.
Among Wallace’s prized possessions are a framed, hand-sewn pillowcase featuring an Old Salem Chautauqua insignia, log cabin and flag; a wooden checkerboard found in the inn’s attic and a pocketsize, framed painting of Abraham Lincoln. Chain saw carver Carl Higginbotham of Oakford created the wooden statue of Lincoln near an entrance.
Owner of the Trading Post tavern in Oakford, Wallace is an avid collector of whiskey, beer and pre-Prohibition items, especially those from the Reisch Brewery, which operated in Springfield for 117 years.
Two pieces won’t be budged: A heavy Comfort Home cook stove that sat in a junkyard for decades, and a huge hardware cupboard that Wallace purchased when the circa-1902 Baugher’s Implement in Greenview closed last year.
“It took eight guys to move this with all the drawers out,” Wallace said.
The inn, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, hasn’t been the saloonkeeper’s only project. About four years ago, a man told him about an early 1800s log cabin in a thicket between Bath and Havana in Mason County.
“We struck a deal, and I bought it,” Wallace said.
Reconstruction
He and friends disassembled the cabin — which had been covered with wood siding, a metal roof and at one time housed hogs — and hauled the logs in the back of an old Ford truck.
“Believe me, it came apart a lot easier than it went back together,” Wallace said. “It stayed in the barn about three years, until I thought I could tackle it.”
Rick and Kathy Thomas, who live east of Oakford, helped Wallace construct the foundation in his backyard, erect and chink the logs and rebuild the fireplace with stone from a western Illinois barn.
“The three of us worked on it about a year. I couldn’t have done it without them,” he said, adding that Mark Wethington of Petersburg built the windows.
Now complete, the cabin is furnished with a four-poster bed made in Cincinnati by a former slave and a rope trundle bed, both of which are covered with pelts, a dry sink, blanket chest, immigrant’s trunk, rocker, drop-leaf table, walnut cupboard, crockery, muzzle loader and other period pieces.
“This was a labor of love,” said Wallace, who sometimes gives tours of the cabin.
Although Charlyn doesn’t mind being surrounded by antiques, she’s not as enthusiastic about old things as is her husband, Wallace said.
“I’m always on the lookout. She says it’s a disease,” he joked, noting that his family has endured a lot of “car time,” going to antiques shops, auctions and estate sales. And daughter Leighann has vowed that when she gets married, “everything’s going to be brand new,” he said.
Meanwhile, Wallace intends to give the inn new windows next spring.
“I’ll never be done,” he said. “There’s always something to do.”
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Biker on Great Bicycle Race Across Iowa, coming into Cedar Falls (my hometown). I forgot to scan this when I posted the two, more developed drawings of RAGBRAI. First sketch of a new pocket-size Moleskine. July 22, 2015
These quartet of custom notebooks was designed by SalesforceUX to celebrate the launch of their tool the Design System at Dreamforce 2015.
On the morning of our departure from Little Saint Simons Island, there was time for one last quicky. From the porch of the Hunting Lodge before boarding the motor boat back to the mainland. December 11, 2013
Last sketch from Death Valley. The palms in the Furnace Creek Inn oasis garden with the Panamint Mountains beyond. March 6, 2016
One of 2 lobster wharves within walking distance from our rental in Jonesport, Maine. $10 for 2 lobsters, just brought in by a lobster fisherman that morning. August 30, 2015
See more about drawings from this trip on the Urban Sketchers Blog www.urbansketchers.org/2015/09/discovering-bones-of-drawi...
We came out of the woods on The Nature Conservancy Trail to the rocky shoreline. The ocean, uninterrupted by other islands, beyond. September 6, 2015
See more about drawings from this trip on the Urban Sketchers Blog www.urbansketchers.org/2015/09/discovering-bones-of-drawi...