Former Barber Shop in Washington DC

It looks like this place is undergoing a transition…

Washington DC, May 2021. Pen and ink in a notebook about 5″ x 8″.

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Purple-Blue House in Washington DC

Here is a house/apartment building in Washington DC from 5/21. The sketchbook is 8″ x 8″.

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Yellow House Postcard

In May I visited my son in Washington, DC, for the day. We walked over to his office. On the way I saw a row of houses. Very cute little guys they were, and the yellow one in particular.

I took a photo. When I came home, I made this drawing and colored it. Then I sent it in the mail to my son.

I’m wondering if I’ve already told you this story. Well, if so, why not again – this little house deserves a second glance…

Drawing With a Pen #2

These drawings were done from photos I took on a train trip to Washington, DC, earlier this summer. One is of the platform in Philadelphia before we boarded the train. The other one is a scene coming into the city. I think I enjoy looking at “behind-the-scenes” views like these more than visiting national monuments or most museums. I think if I could have toured the second location, I could have spent some hours there. Especially if they had let me climb around on some of these structures…

Platform, 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, PA

Washington, DC

Lots of Art Lined Up and Waiting

The Small Landscape Giveaway has occupied the painting space on this blog for a long time – all winter, in fact, right? So I have a lot of paintings that I’ve worked on since the fall to show you and I’ll start in right here.

These paintings are all 6″ x 6″ and done in acrylics on board – some with an applied gesso surface with a texture, some with smooth, and some that I gessoed myself with a slightly rough surface. I see that I was using up the tail ends of a lot of categories of board, wasn’t I?

These paintings were all done around the time of October, 2015. Many of them refer to actual sights I saw – look at the captions for more information, if you are interested.

The chair and the window were in the library of Arcadia University reading room – I added a figure looking out at the open green beyond the window.

This bus just let someone out at Easton Road near the train station in Glenside, PA.

This house was perched up on a hill on a nice street in northwest Washington, DC.

The ladies were shopping at a show I did at Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster, PA.

This train (which in real life is silver, not pink…) is crossing the road in Glenside, PA.

This turquoise bus was moving down the street in downtown Pittsburgh, PA. As you may remember, I love the buses in that city – they are painted in a variety of colors and it’s a treat to watch them go through traffic on the streets.

“Come Alive and Step Into the Street”

I visited Washington, DC, this weekend, and I took this photo. I love mannikins and I love reflections and so – I have both of them in this photo!

“Come Alive and Step Into the Street” – photograph