Sitting outside the Convention center sketching the Center for Architecture and a street fair across the way. Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodlers black ink, Faber-Castell Pitt art pens and Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Month: May 2016
Friendship Arch
Another early morning plein air sketch between AIA leaning sessions. Leaning on a bollard in a bustling Chinatown Philadelphia. I tried to bring looser and more interpretive with this one. Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodlers black ink, Faber-Castell Pitt art pens with Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Flower Stall
A quick watercolor and ink sketch of a flower stall in the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, PA. Wonderful active space that used to be a railway station. Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodlers black ink and Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Rittenhouse Square
An ink sketch of a wonderful park that was part of the original master plan for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A quite oasis in the city that seems to be well used by the local residents. Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodlers black ink and in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Washington Square
Pen and Ink drawing in a green park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodlers black ink and Faber-Castell Pitt art pens in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Coast Guard Station House
The station house is located at the Sandwich Marina and was constructed as an updated office and residential (berthing) facility for the U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station following the demolition of the original facility at a site nearby with the widening of the Cape Cod Canal in 1936. The new facility provided space for the central administrative and social support functions of the station following a standard Colonial Revival-styled module employed elsewhere by the Coast Guard for similar facilities during the period. Similar-styled station houses exist in the region, including station houses at Block Island (New Harbor) and Point Judity, RI. and were built under federal New Deal WPA/PWS initiatives during the 1935-37 period. These buildings collectively represent the early 20th century function of the Coast Guard’s lifesaving stations along the New England coast. The sketch is at dusk when most of the structure was very dark, almost black with the dusk sky. Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodler’s Black Ink and Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Purple Tulips
Another color of our tulips that are in full bloom in our yard. This one is a little looser style which I like better than the others. Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodler’s Black ink with Holbein and Daniel Smith watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Pink Tulip
Another color of our tulips that are in full bloom in our yard. Yea Spring! Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodler’s Black ink with Holbein and Daniel Smith watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Orange Tulip
Another color of our tulips that are in full bloom in our yard. Yea Spring! Holbein and Daniel Smith watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Red Tulip
It was a pleasure to return from vacation and see our tulips at the house in full bloom. the weather was so cool and damp while we were away, that the blooms slowed down. Typically they are only in bloom for a day or 2 until the deer eat them. There are 4 colors and they are beautiful. Over the next few days I will be sketching each of them. Holbein and Daniel Smith watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
A SKETCHBOOK ODYSSEY 