Three Mast Sailing Ship

Part of the fun of living in Maryland is the access to the Chesapeake Bay and the numbers of Tall Ships which are always cruising through the area.   I have a fair amount of reference photos of many of these ships.  This a pencil sketch from an old historic photo.  I can always find books about the sea and ships with black and white photos.

Tugboat - Part 2

This is another sketch in my sketchbook of ships, which is about half sailing ships and half Tugboats.  So this Tug is in choppy seas and is off to calmer waters.  These sketches are part of my evening routine of decompression from the day's work.

Tugboat

I have certain interests on different subjects.  Some I know why I am interested in them because of childhood memories or other experiences.  I don't know where my fascination with Tugboats came from but I have a collection of my photos and others of these workhorse of the waterways of the world.  Some I have drawn pictures of these Tugs.

White Breasted Nuthatch

Long Day at work, so I will post a yard bird, It is a White Breasted Nuthatch.  These are not too afraid of humans and eat a lot of bugs off our trees in the backyard.  Done with my favorite medium for birds - colored pencils.

Parthenon

Let's go to Greece, Athens, and look from the plaka up to the Parthenon.  This is a quickie watercolor done in Athens way back in 2003.  It is the only watercolor I like from this trip.  The trip was great but the art still needed work and reinforced to me the need to work harder.

Maynard Dixon, Part 2

This is another Maynard Dixon sketch of a Yaqui Woman from Southern California or Southern Arizona.  He would travel through out the West and would paint and sketch people and the landscape.  This is what I aspire to in my retirement or really it will be my second career.

Maynard Dixon Sketch

Another artist who motivates me in so many ways is Maynard Dixon.  He is a well known artist and illustrator from approximately 100+ years ago.  He did lots of illustration and then finished up with great plain air paintings all around the Western United States.  He is probably best known for his Desert paintings.  I like some of his pencil sketches of the desert Natives Americans from the 1910-ish era.  Above is my rendition of one of these sketches of a Native American girl.