sketchbook – Page 34 – A SKETCHBOOK ODYSSEY

Highland Bog

October 1, 2015October 4, 2015waynejacques2 Comments

Fall in New England is almost all about the fall colors which are spectacular. The trees are just starting to turn here in southern New England as you can see in my sketch. The fall is also cranberry season in New England. This sketch of a cranberry bog near our house shows another vibrant color of the fall. This bog is being wet picked, which means that the bog is flooded with water and the berries are dislodged from the vines and float to the surface. The wind usually pushes them to one end of the bog where the berries are corralled and sucked up into waiting trucks. This method of picking can only be used for juices in that the berries get water logged and cannot be used as fresh fruit. A beautiful site as you travel around this area and see the flooded bogs with the vibrant pink-burgundy berries floating. Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn Alpha series sketchbook.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. ~Jim Bishop

September 30, 2015October 11, 2015waynejacquesLeave a comment

Autumn, interchangeably known as fall in North America, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September, when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier and the temperature cools considerably.Association with the transition from warm to cold weather, and its related status as the season of the primary harvest, has dominated its themes and popular images. In Western cultures, personifications of autumn are usually pretty, well-fed females adorned with fruits, vegetables and grains that ripen at this time (or a scarecrow in this case in front of our favorite coffee shop).

Post Office Light

September 29, 2015October 2, 2015waynejacques2 Comments

This is a sketch of one of the large (6 feet tall) lanterns that flank the main entrance to the Post Office in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The lanterns are frosted glass with the metal work being a bronze or brass with a beautiful patina. Faber-Castell Pitt Art pens in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.

Ridgewood Country Club from the range

September 28, 2015October 2, 2015waynejacquesLeave a comment

Another road trip to New Jersey for work and another visit to Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey. I borrowed a cart this time and had a different view from the driving range. It is a beautiful structure with real slate roofs, stone, brick and some half-timber construction. Pilot Namiki Falcon fountain pen with Noodler’s black ink and Pelikan watercolors.

Falmouth Harbor

September 27, 2015September 28, 2015waynejacques1 Comment

A beautiful early fall day on Cape Cod. While Lisa was walking along Falmouth Heights, I sat on the seawall and enjoyed the view of the entrance to Falmouth Harbor. The sun was very bright and created a silhouette of the jetties that form the mouth of the harbor entry. Pelikan watercolors in a Stillman and Birn Alpha sketchbook.

Dinghy

September 26, 2015December 30, 2015waynejacquesLeave a comment

This little dinghy looked as if it was washed up on the shore and came to rest in the flattened sea grass. Faber-Castell Pitt pens with Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.

2015-09-26 Dinghy

Pumpkins

September 25, 2015September 28, 2015waynejacquesLeave a comment

Another quick vignette of a bin of different pumpkins. I do not think that they are all the typical sugar pumpkins. Elliott’s Farm is located in Lakeville, Massachusetts. Pilot Namiki Falcon fountain pen with Noodler’s black ink and Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.

Elliott’s Farm

September 24, 2015September 28, 2015waynejacques1 Comment

A quick vignette of a local farm with all of the fine fall produce including this sea of pumpkins. Pilot Namiki Falcon fountain pen with Noodler’s black ink and Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.

Butterfly

September 23, 2015September 26, 2015waynejacques1 Comment

This was a wonderful photograph that my wife Lisa snapped the other day at a garden nursery. A beautiful butterfly landed on a Coneflower in full bloom. The color of the butterfly was almost identical to the interior cone of the Coneflower. The petals were a vibrant red with some purple flowers in the background. It has been a crazy busy week and I am trying to catch up with scanning and posting. Holbein and Daniel Smith watercolors in a Stillman and Birn Alpha sketchbook.

139 Broadway

September 22, 2015September 26, 2015waynejacques2 Comments

This is an interesting building that I drive by everyday on my way into the office. I looks like it could have maybe been a carriage house for a larger estate at one time. Then, probably in the 1970’s, someone decided that they should add a bad commercial addition to the street side of the building. It is now for rent as commercial, but I like the bones of the original structure and it has an interesting 3 tone paint scheme.