Photos that start in the woods and end up in the city

This top photo is one which has been modified with filters so it looks softer. What I really learned from this is that my cell phone camera can capture some really nice pictures. I'll show you some in this post.

The photo to the left is from my regular digital camera. I was driving across Indiana on business in August and saw this beautiful field of soybeans with a silo. I just had to stop and take a picture.

This photo (above) is from my camera phone as I was sitting in Philly. I was at the restaurant El Vez, named after a Mexican Elvis impersonator. The light was just beautiful. You always have your phone with you, right? Don't let the images escape unrecorded.


This photo (below) is also from Philly. This is a day later on Samson Street at Finn McCools - no extra charge for the plug, guys. More beautiful light down an urban landscape. This is also from my camera phone.

When the weather is warm like that evening it is lovely to stroll around a city and see how buildings of varying architectural styles have been placed by each other over the years. The gray of concrete next to the warm cinnamon of brick.




This last photo is also from Philly - it was a three day conference and rich with images. This was taken with my digital non-cell phone camera from my hotel room in the morning.

A new start - see things through my eyes

I have been traveling during September and during my travels I draw. I draw other times too but I have a series of drawings from airports I would like to share with you.



One of my flights was through Philadelphia, as seen on the left.







Since I traveled through Charlotte NC I have a few drawings from that airport. Bill Whitaker, see www (dot) williamwhitaker (dot) com, said that all we are doing is recording the effects of light on the surface of objects. The light on airplane hulls does beautiful things.





So, to all my scouts and friends who have encouraged me, I hope you will enjoy my drawings as much as I have enjoyed creating them. If you really want to have a great adventure read Danny Gregory's "A Creative License". Danny teaches you how to draw and then gently leads you along as you do your first drawings. You will learn how to make an illustrated journal and in the process you will change the way you look at everything around you.

The drawing to the right was some very tasty spumoni ice cream at the Napolli II restaurant in the Shakespeare section of the Montgomery area. Sometimes the lines do not connect up the way they should. Oh well. I enjoyed the spumoni anyway.













The last week of August I was in Chicago IL. This is a drawing of the Downtown Marriott's lobby. It is a very open and airy expanse. I sat in the restaurant on the 2nd floor and drew while I had dinner. This was the evening Bill Clinton addressed the Democrats' convention.

I had to draw this twice. The first time was less successful. Such is drawing - not every drawing is suitable for presentation. The drawings that are less than successful are the ones that teach you. With each successive drawing you become more familiar with your subject and you see more details and little things you missed in the previous drawings. I draw to see clearly.