Dinner last night at the Bay House in Naples Florida. This jazz
trio was playing in the tavern under a neon live bait sign. The ink and watercolor sketch was completed from a photograph this morning in my Travel Journal.
Month: April 2015
Travel Journal page
Attached is the page from my Travel Journal Sketchbook from today. The images include a sketch from Starbucks, 2 ink sketches and a watercolor from the Naples Botanical Gardens and journal entries from today.
Bird of Paradise
The flowers here in Naples are beautiful. I have always loved the Bird of Paradise, we had them in our yard growing up. Vibrant oranges with red
and purple highlights. Utrecht
watercolors in my Stillman and Birn travel sketchbook.
Fifth Avenue
Black and white sketch while sitting in the shade on Fifth Avenue in Naples. Great pedestrian scale architecture. Faber-Castell black pen line drawing in an Alpha Series Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
3rd Street South
Another quick watercolor sketch in Naples. Sitting in the shade under a Banyan tree trying to cool off and sketching the building across the street.
First Day of Vacation
Traveled from the 32 degrees in New England this morning to 91 degrees in Naples, FL. A quick watercolor sketch a the first in a new sketchbook and the first entry into the new Travel Journal. Thus it’s a roof feature on the Naples Yacht Cub a seen from our balcony lanai. Pelikan watercolors in a Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
Finally Spring!
Spring has finally arrived here in the Northeast. The snow is gone, the nesting birds have returned, flowers are in bloom and pollen is in the air. It is a beautiful sight to see the daffodils and the Hyacinth in bloom in the yard. A sure sign of spring. Happy Spring everyone. Utrecht watercolors in a Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
Electrochem
This was the most interesting building in a local office park. The corner with sloped glass and the transparent nature of corner in letting the outside in. The reflections of the clouds and American flag in the glass was great. Faber-Castell black pens in a Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
Shadowbrook Catering
Another site visit for work. Shadowbrook Catering in Shrewsbury, New Jersey was recently purchased by a client of ours and renovation plans are in the works. This was a view in one of the gardens of a beautiful fountain surrounded by yellow daffodils and red tulips. Pelikan watercolors and ink in a S & B Sketchbook.
First Presbyterian Church Oyster Bay
One last sketch from the weekend of art on Long Island. The First Presbyterian Church is in the beautiful hamlet of Oyster Bay on the North Shore of Long Island. It is a beautiful small town on the bay and I was drawn to this church for all of the wood tracery work in the bell tower. The First Presbyterian Church built in 1873 in a historic Carpenter Gothic-style. Its architect was J. Cleveland Cady, who was just beginning his career and would go on to design the original Metropolitan Opera House, the American Museum of Natural History, buildings at Yale University, Trinity College, and 23 other churches, but he never designed any other churches in the Carpenter Gothic-style. Simple line drawing at lunch with Faber-Castell Pitt pens in a Stillman and Birn Alpha Sketchbook.
A SKETCHBOOK ODYSSEY 