Sketch Book Series: Detail – M and D’s House (April 2009)
Sometimes light and shadows are what captures my attention.
Tag Archives: nostalgia
Sketch Book Series: Back Yard (August 2008)
Sketch Book Series: Dining Room (August 2008)
Sketch Book Series: View of Kitchen (April 2009)
Sketch Book Series: TV Room and Kitchen Pass Through (April 2009)
The clear, bold lines are due to a thick Micron pen used to trace over an underlying pencil sketch. The result is more of a snapshot than an interpretation of space. It is like a journal entry, used to remember a particular point in time.
Sketch Book Series: M and D’s View of Florida Room (April 2009)
Even though the background should be seen as further away, I enjoyed my efforts to assemble the elements of this watercolor sketch to reconstruct the view of the ‘Florida Room’ (as the called it) at my Mom and Dad’s house.
Sketch Book Series: Meeting Place (September 2010)
Sometimes sketching is just to nail down a memory.
Sketch Book Series: Kitchen (August 2008)
One thing glares out at me as I revisit this sketch: the very black black of the stove and the hood over the stove. It is a solid black, when it should have been a cross-hatched tone darker than the sides of the cabinets. Otherwise, this would have been a really good nostalgic piece.
Sketch Book Series: Back Porch (August 2008)
I worked hard on this drawing. I had just retired, I had little else to do around the house (being settled after the move out west). I had been practicing shading with my micro-tip ink pen. This drawing looks pretty good altogether and, instead of being an art piece for me, it serves the purpose […]
Vintage Photo: Demolition of 1st Ave Entrance to Manhattan VA, May 1989 (Where Bogey was Dumped in ‘The Harder They Fall’, 1956)
I was prompted to upload this photo by Mark Phillips, whose wrote a wonderful, and highly researched piece (nycinfilm.com/2020/08/25/the-harder-they-fall-1956) about the NYC locations of the movie, ‘The Harder They Fall’, with Humphrey Bogart. This ground’s-eye view supplements the bird’s-eye view of this entrance posted a few weeks ago. Early in my tenure working at the Manhattan […]
