Old Key West

Down at Disney World again to see holiday decorations. A view looking along the breezeway at the hospitality house of Old Key West resort. Quickly drawn with marker on tracing paper, approximately 6" by 9" original size, done December, 2012. 

Peggy's Cove

Recently I visited Peggy's Cove on the coast of Nova Scotia, near Halifax. It was very picturesque. These are two quickly drawn sketches done there, felt tip marker on tracing paper, approximately 6" by 10".

Old Key West

Recently I spent a few days at Disney World in Florida. Here is a view of the hospitality house at Disney's Old Key West resort at dusk looking northeast from Peninsular Road. Felt tip marker on tracing paper, 5 1/2" by 4 1/2" original size, with sky tone added later using Paint Shop Pro, drawn May, 2012.

Log Home

A sketch of the log home shown in an earlier post, but in a different setting. Approximately 11" by 8 1/2" original size, drawn with Google SketchUp in 2003 on paper and hand finished with felt tip marker.

Kitchen Addition

The interior of a kitchen addition drawn in 2006 using Google SketchUp, 7" by 5" original size.

Greatest Hits

Coming up to six months since I established this blog, I thought that the audience might like to know which posts have been viewed the most. The view of the Tuileries from Place de la Concorde in Paris (top sketch) has received the most hits, followed closely by the sketch of Paris' L'Arc de Triomphe (middle sketch). The most hits in one day goes to the watercolor of Bunny's Liquors in Urbana, IL (bottom sketch). Now, how does one explain the audience's interest? Some of it has to do with the subject matter of the sketches, I suppose; or it might be the medium that the drawing was done in; or it could be the style of the sketching technique. In order to make it easier to find a type of sketch or technique or media, I recently added more labeling gadgets.

Superdawg Drive-In

Sketch (really more of a scribble) of the Superdawg Drive-In, Chicago. Original size: 3" by 8", felt tip marker on tracing paper with the image color reversed using Paint Shop Pro, done March, 2012.

Log Home

Exterior view (top sketch) and interior view of the great room (bottom sketch) of the log home project in northeastern Illinois from 1995 from a previous posting. Felt tip marker and pencil on tracing paper, 6" by 4" original sizes.

Log Home

Two sketches of driveway approaches to a log home project in northeastern Illinois from 1995. Felt tip marker on tracing paper, each sketch originally 7" by 5".

Illioskee

A view of Illioskee, a carnival that used to be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A watercolor, approximately 16" by 14" original size, Spring, 1970.

Bunny's Liquors

Now, I am going to post a few earlier watercolors. Here is a view of Bunny's Package Liquors in Urbana, IL: approximately 16" by 14" original size, done on site, Spring, 1970.