2012 commitment to draw - paint-sketrch

This weekend I got my garden in - downsized. Mary is going to retire. My daughter got the teaching job she was hoping to get. My two boys are doing great... Nick travels frequently for work. Steve is doing fantastic with his sales position.

I started this primarily to openly commit to more drawing, sketching and painting. I am pretty sure I can double what I did last year and add a series of oils or acrylics.

I am alway impressed with Nathan Fawkes' Landsketch blog. Simply awesome stuff, what an eye he has for light and dark. Compositions and gesture paintings so freely done so creative.

Urban Sketchers: Incident at Lady Meredith - Workshops on my mind! posted by Marc Holmes on Urban Sktecher

Urban Sketchers: Incident at Lady Meredith - Workshops on my mind!: The last couple days I've been out painting Lady Meredith House , at the corner of Pins and Peel, in the heart of the Golden Mile. I pass ...

 

Spring is here, the weather is getting nice . Clearly time to get back outside and paint more of the city-river series.

Animation subtle simple

Markus-Weldon copied from Deviant Art Very nice

March / April sketches

Drawings from March of this year. So many changes a year brings in our lives. People, events, frustrations, disappointments. Joys, pleasure, successes, happiness, confidence. hoping for a productive year as I start planning for retirement in either a year or two. Or maybe not at all if the environment improves. 

More drawings and paintings to come. UrbanSketcher

Flame art

Nice video

Winter in Pittsburgh

Guache painting - new series Mt. Washington

New painting - Shiloh Street near sunset Oct 17

 

 

New SketchCrawl t-shirts!!!

New SketchCrawl t-shirts!!!

Cityview from the Southside of Pittsburgh series

Below is newest to oldest series of painting from the southside

View from the southside on the Mon - 10th Street bridge

 Moving back up river toward the Birmingham bridge

Wide view of the city from Birmingham bridge - up river

Sitting very close to the Liberty bridge. I tried to get permission to climb aboard one of the barges. One guy wanted to let me go ahead, the other guy went by the book and did not care what or who I was, there was no way he was gonna let me on.

Cityview from Liberty Bridge

Cityview - painted August 6, 2011

First painting from the Southside near the 10th street bridge. I set my goal to complete within two hours. I am very happy with this second effort -I posted this image earlier, but wanted to stack it up with my recent projects. A painting from Chicago appears below it.

Cityview from 10th Street bridge - Southside Pittsburgh

This is from one of my favorite views of Pittsburgh. Just about any view from across the Mon is great.

Oak Brook golf course 18th hole

This opaque watercolor painting is the first one I've done since I started doing pastels and skteches. I was in Chicago for work (PNC Financial Services) and new I would have some free time before the meeting began. I decided to take my paints and gave myself two hours to do a painting. Pretty happy with the results, the reproduction here is not great, but the color reproduction is fairly accurate. The image itself is slightly soft.