Spring Break at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

Monticello's garden entrance that we see so often on the back of a nickel.

Here are the side of the house dependencies: 

the kitchen, smokehouse, etc. 

The side board walk over the stables and laundry at Monticello. 

Looks out onto the sun dial that really works!

Rockefeller Park Greenhouse

Sketching fun at the Greenhouse near the Cultural Gardens, got to see the poinsettia display set-up and a wedding proposal!

Merwin's Wharf on the Cuyahoga River

Quick Sketches

It was a wonderful sketch outing at Merwin's Wharf, next to the closed Columbus Bridge. Here are some quick thumbnail sketches. On the left are a series of two minute sketches (1 x 1.5") and at the right are 15-20 minute sketches (3 x 2.5") using General's Woodless Graphite on sketch paper. Plenty of interesting activity on the river and the patio.

Cleveland Public Library

This sketch crawl was the most URBAN of all! We had 2 panhandlers hitting us up for money, bridal parties coming out of the Hyatt, smelly bus exhaust and the roar of the Blue Angels overheard.

Wade Oval - University Circle

Our last sketch outing starting at The Cleveland Botanical Gardens,

from the big oak in the middle of the oval you can see these Cleveland landmarks.

Dazzle the District

World's largest outdoor chandelier at Playhouse Square.

Postcards from Edgewater Park

Wish you were there! It was a beautiful day to sketch at Edgewater Park on Lake Erie.

5th Street Arcade (old Euclid Arcade)

Here's my attempt at the old fashioned staircase, near Euclid. The angles and perspective were a challenge. Really enjoyed the outing and drawing with our group of awesome sketchers.

Tower City Fountain

Thumbnail sketches at Tower City Fountain

 

 

Exciting to sketch while the Cleveland International Film Festival 

was happening at Tower City. Especially fun for me because

Beth Harrington - director of The Winding Stream 

stayed with us and we had a Syracuse reunion.

I usually start out with 3 or 4 thumbnails for composition, about 1" x 2".

I decided on the centered version of the Terminal Tower with just one tree, 

tried to draw jets that were in a flight path above us, but erased them.

Great day for sketching and a good turnout.

Here's an earlier sketch from Grove Court near W. 25.

Chautauqua Institute Landmarks

From my sketch-a-day class at Chautauqua Institute located in upstate New York, used General's Woodless Graphite on heavyweight sketch book paper. A wonderful way to spend a summer afternoon. Not quite Cleveland, but a short 2 hr drive East.

Garden Walk on Clinton & 65th

Here's a totally different take on the same house that Maureen described in her post below, I guess in my own mind I was flying above the house! I loved that everyone took such pride in their houses. My Mom grew up in that neighborhood and said it was always a nice street back in the 1940s.

This is a summer garden sketch that could have been from that house's backyard, but it's my own little container garden called City Pickers that I eat lettuce out of daily. Sketched on my iPad in the program Paper by 53 using a Jot Pro Stylus — really fun!

W. 25th & Meyer

I took artistic license to give make my composition more pleasing, used General's Woodless Graphite  on paper. It was a beautiful day to get out and draw.