Vegas Trip

I made a trip to Las Vegas two weekends ago and here's two sketches from it.

Latest Sketches

Here's two from Edgewater and one from the week after.

Downtown

Here's some sketches in my Moleskine sketchbook from earlier this month.

Federal Courthouse

This is a sketch of the Federal Courthouse at W 9th and Superior.

Warehouse District

Here's a sketch from yesterday of St. Clair Ave. in the Warehouse District. I used to work at the end of W.9th st. in the building that sits 2 feet north of the Main Avenue Bridge. When we first moved in, only one building had been restored in the district. Now they're ALL restored, except for the building I worked in!

Checking In

 

Hi all, sorry I haven't posted lately! I've been doing a lot of garden plein air painting. Here's two urban subjects I worked on recently. Hope everyone's well!  That's the Artcraft Building on Superior Ave. downtown in the first sketch.

Street Scene

This is a sketch I did from my car on Saturday. It started to get misty and the windshield was starting to get all wet, so I had to stop.

Ohio City

Here's a few more from Ohio City. That's St. Ignatius with the big tree in the middle. Lots of details that I sort of gave up on!

Ohio City

Here's a sketch I did two weekends ago in Ohio City. Some nice iron fencing in front of a friend's house. I'm fascinated by all the fencing in this neighborhood.

League Park Also

Here's my sketch of the ticket office at League Park. When the park was rebuilt in concrete and steel in 1910, this building already existed, and the rest of the park was planned around it. I only got this one sketch in, as it was the day of Parade the Circle and I didn't want to miss that.

League Park is the only existing ex major league ballpark from this era. It'll be exciting to see what they come up with for its next chapter.

West 25th Street

Here's two sketches from Saturday. It was a beautiful sunny morning but still a little too chilly to sketch outside, so I did these from inside the car. A great way to kick off a terrific weekend weather wise.

Sketchbook

These are from last night. The first two are from a High School band concert, and the last is from a Home Owners' Association meeting I attended afterward.

Kokoon Arts Club - Part 2

This is what I sketched during a recent excursion to the Kokoon Arts Club exhibit at the Cleveland Public Library which Cathy posted about below. It is a section of the 1926 invitation to the club's annual costume ball. The invitations were printed poster size and then folded and mailed to the recipients. You can see where the guest's name would have been written in by hand.

An invitation to the Bal Masque was highly coveted since it was considered to be the most popular, notorious, party of the year. Each Ball had a theme and party-goers were serious about creating elaborate, and often risque, costumes to represent the theme.




I was primarily interested in capturing the typography and wording on this beautiful art deco poster. The poster can be seen in it's entirety here.

There is an interesting article you can read about the Kokoon Arts Club here.

I used the facing page in my watercolor Moleskine to record the exhibit's description of the poster and to sketch part of the main figure again since I ran out of room on the first sketch.

Before last week I had never even heard of the Kokoon Arts Club. Learning new things about our fair city is one of my favorite parts of sketching.

The Trestle

This is the railroad trestle in the Metroparks in Berea. Wanted to make sure I got a sketch in today on the day of the 34th World Wide SketchCrawl!

Museum of Art

We went to the Cleveland Museum of Art Saturday. I got there a little late, so I only got these three sketches done. The two pencil sketches are of marble sculptures, the watercolor is of a bronze.

Still Life

This was a still life that I had set up for the watercolor class that I teach on Monday nights. I thought I'd change up a bit and do a still life in the sketch book.

Grasselli Library

 

 

One advantage to working on a college campus is that there is always something close by to sketch. The library has an outdoor reading garden and this little statue is tucked away in a hidden corner. Conveniently, there's a bench hidden back there too.

 

When the weather forces one to sketch indoors, the library is filled with stacks of books that probably make for more interesting sketching than reading.

Rockefeller Greenhouse

No this isn't the Rockefeller Greenhouse. I was up there but got called home to help out with a family logistical emergency. So here is a sketch I did up at Gardenview Horticultural Garden in Strongsville earlier that week.

More Medina

These are the three moleskine sketches I made while visiting the Medina Farmer's Market last year in June. It was a beautiful day and I took advantage of it. The second sketch is of the gazebo in the center of the square.