Pump House Surf Shop is located at the rotary in Orleans, Massachusetts. It is a great surf and beach shop with very knowledgeable staff and owners for all things ocean and water related on Cape Cod. Faber-Castell Pitt Art pen with Holbein watercolors in an Alpha Series 9 x 12 Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
The Church of the Messiah is located in the beautiful quaint village of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The granite, Gothic-style church that stands beside Little Harbor is home to Cape Cod’s oldest Episcopal parish. The church, which was constructed in 1888 and consecrated on July 2, 1889. Back to practicing with pencil for tonal a study. Koh-I-nor solid graphite 6B pencil in an Alpha Series Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
The flowers are amazing this time of year, especially on Cape Cod. It must be the cooler nights and the salt air moisture. This watercolor sketch is actually of one of the beds adjacent to yesterdays sketch of the Whole Food Store. The flowers are Blue Vine Flowers and Lavender. The lavender is so abundant on the cape this year. Maybe I am just noticing it more this year.
Whole Food Store – Not to be confused with the large chain Whole Foods. This is a Natural Food store in the center of Orleans, MA. Faber-Castell Pitt pens and Watercolor in a Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
My 200th sketch this year. The Raspberry (/ˈræzˌbɛri/) is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the genus Rubus of the Rose Family, most of which are in the subgenus Idaeobatus: the name also applies to these plants themselves. These black and red raspberries were growing wild on the edge of a parking lot and were beautiful. Pelikan watercolors, F-C Pitt pens in a 5″ x 8″ Moleskine watercolor sketchbook.
We did not eat here but we would like to give it a try, it looked fun from the street. You can pick your own lobsters from the lobster tank boat. Faber-Castell Pitt pens with Holbein and Mission watercolors in a Stillman and Birn Alpha Sketchbook.
It was a beautiful evening to final get out for a little En Plein Air painting. The view is of Nobska Light in Woods Hole, Massachusetts from Church Street. It was a perfect location in that I was able to set-up the easel and sit in the back of my SUV with the rear hatch open. To my right was the sound of the waves and the smell of the salt air and sea roses. It does not get much better than this. Holbein and Mission Watercolors on Fluid 140# cold press watercolor paper. Finished size is 11″ x 18″.
This is a sketch from a photo that I snapped last weekend in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The location is the small canal that connects Great Harbor to Eel Pond. The Eel Pond Draw Bridge is used to allow Water Street to cross the canal and is located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The drawbridge was rebuilt during the winter of 2008-2009. I chose to make a tonal study of this sketch. Faber-Castel Pit Art pens in Black and shades of Grey in a 9 x 12 Alpha Series Stillman and Birn Sketchbook.
We had an impromptu dinner date tonight with our best friends Keith and Katherine to celebrate her birthday. They had spent the day on Martha’s Vineyard and we met at the Quahog Republic in the hamlet of Onset, Massachusetts. It is a great little casual restaurant across the street from the water in Onset. A quick ink line drawing in my Alpha Series Stillman and Birn.
Real Bodies store in Falmouth, Massachusetts specializes in women’s clothing and accessories in beautiful Batik fabrics from Bali. This was sketched on location with watercolor added later in the studio/ Faber-Castell Pitt Art pens with watercolors and accents with a white gel pen in a Stillman and Birn 9 x 12 Alpha Sketchbook.
A SKETCHBOOK ODYSSEY 