Here are two more sketches from Philadelphia, the top sketch is of Mermaid Lane SEPTA train Bridge. The second sketch was drawn form Beau Monde a creperie near south st in Philadelphia.

These are some old drawings that i forgot to post they are all from October when i went up to Philadelphia for a little vacation . Over that weekend i completed 20 drawings in my small moleskine . This first batch of drawings were done the first day i arrived in Philly. The top drawings are from the Navy yard the next one is a view of the now demolished 30th street power station the fourth view is of a trader Joe's in Philadelphia

Skyscrapers/highrises Of North Carolina

Some of recent sketches that I have done.The first one is a drawing of the Guilford building on Elm St in Greensboro NC. The second drawing is the side facade of the former First National Bank building in Durham NC . The third and fourth drawings are of the Jefferson- Pilot buildings in downtown Greensboro NC.

Drawing i did on Sunday after lunch at Saigon grill a excellent Vietnamese restaurant on north Roxboro st in Durham NC . The strip mall it's self is closer to I 40 .

Some recent sketches i have done in my small moleskine sketchbook i have been filling up 2 pages a day and so far i should have the sketchbook finished by the 19th i plan on buying a new sketchbook for my trip to Philadelphia on the 23rd . The top three are sketches of telephone poles so far i have drawn 20 telephone poles i should be posting some more in the following days. The bottom two are sketches of Burlington NC the first is the back view of the skyscraper in the second drawing the one to the right of this is a drawing of the Elon University campus.

This is a sketch form Saturday its of a railroad bridge on Mc. Gee st. in downtown Greensboro i did the sketch from a small patch of grass in between the road and a parking lot. the area below the bridge is gray but my scanner is so bright it disoriented the color.

To recent water color sketches the top one is a drawing of the green bridge condos its a fairly simple view of the first and second floor of of GreenBridge west I choose the location because i was able to find a good place to sit down. The other drawing is of an old barge at seabreeze a small community near Carolina beach.

Some recent drawings of the new Greenbridge condos in Carrboro. The top sketch was done today while waiting to get pizza at the Franklin street pizzeria. The bottom sketch was done yesterday while at Milltown for lunch . Although there is a lot of criticism towards the New Greeenbridge condos I am Really pleased with what they will offer Chapel Hill and Carrboro . I am very excited i really hope these condos will help make the downtown the center of activity for a town rather than malls . This will give Carrboro and even more European feel even though it is already called the Paris of the Piedmont, because residents of the new condos will be able to walk from there condo to dine, shop and enjoy the downtown . Another exiting fact about these condos is the fact that they will be very Eco friendly .

I visited Graham N.C. the downtown has to be one of the most architecturally interesting down towns in North Carolina I love the square with the courthouse in the middle and all the buildings surrounding it . There are many beautiful Cast-iron architecture style buildings. One of my favorite buildings which i was unable to draw was the old drug store hopefully the have plans to restore the building and the old pharmacy. The one thing that disappointed me was that some of the building had a metal facade over them hopefully the town has plans to remove them. I was messing around with my scanner settings because i felt that there was always too much of a glare so i tried to darken it its a little over darkened but its better than the glare.

On my way to Maine for vacation I took a Picture from the highway of a power planet in Hartford Ct. it turned out to be one of the best pictures that i took from the car window. When I was looking through all the pictures This one was one of my favorites so I decided to do a pen and ink of it although it stared out as a pencil drawing at first did not feel as if i had enough experience to do a large pencil drawing so I went with pen and ink. In the foreground is the top of a train car the building also in the foreground their is some sort of food processing planet in the background is the power planet . I don't have a great scanner so the smoke is whited out.

Sketches from my vacation on Mont desert island Maine From top to bottom Isleford dock Little Cranberry Island, abandoned building main street Northeast Harbor use to be sherman's book store, view of southwest harbor and Manset from Manset , the old fire station in northeast harbor now houses the Great Harbor Museum The last sketch is of a building on Ilesford behind it is the ilesford museum drawn from the ilesford dock restaurant .If you ever get a chance to got to mount desert island the restaurant is accessible by a daily ferry from southwest and northeast harbor. In my option this is the best restaurant on the island in terms of food, friendliness and the view.I really enjoyed my stay up the I was able to get 18 drawings done.

One of the many sketches I have been able to do while in Maine for vacation this one is of of the swans island ferry dock in Bass Harbor Maine.I ate at a great restaurant called Mainly Delights.I had a shrimp roll with home made potato chips.the ferry came in once while i was sketching the ferry dock put I decided to exclude it form the sketch. The weather up here was rainy and foggy when I first arrived put now the weather is getting nicer but there are still some rainy days .

Some recent sketches the one on the left was done from Kurami a Japanese restaurant. A while back i did the same sketch but in a large watercolor moleskin but sadly I left that journal in Paris and when i finally realized it was gone it was too late somebody had taken it.The one on the right was done today in Hillsborough.

Sketch done from Cup a Joe looking over to Dual hardware supplies W. King St.

This a sketch looking out form the window of the exam room at the doctors office in chapel hill. It was taking so long for the doctor to arrive that i deiced to pull out my sketchbook and started sketching the construction sight across the street.

Some sketches from Carolina beach sorry these are like a week late but like i said before earlier my main computer was down so i was not able to scan and post them. I was staying in the Marriott inn on Carolina beach the top 2 and bottom 2 are of the boardwalk which is a great place to cool off and get a slushy or play 1980s arcade games it use to be pretty rundown but it looks a little better now.The middle one is of a crane near the marina at Carolina beach.

The one on the left was drawn from the Italian restaurant Dell Angelo which is located along Avenue Rapp.The one on the right is also drawn from Cafe Le Week End but is of Hopital Laennec.
The one on the left is the back of The Madeleine I drew it form cafe Madeleine.The on the right is of the last Gare de Metro along Boulevard De Grenelle before it passes over the Seine.


The the sketch on the left is of La Grande Epicerie De Paris It was drawn from Cafe Le Week End 65, rue de Sevres .The one on the right was done looking through the mirror at an Agatha jewelry store in Paris it was near Les Deux Magots.



Here are some sketches from Paris

As soon as i walked into the airport I sat down and stared sketching my luggage and the pay phones.


This is the sketch I made while waiting in Philadelphia .
This is gate 22 at RDU international it was delayed for 2 hours because of back of from bad weather in the morning.Luckily we had 3 hours to wait in Philadelphia and then are flight there was also delayed till 10 pm.
My computers been down for about 2 months now that was really annoying because i was not able to upload my new sketches from my trip to France over Easter.

New drawing this is from a picture i took in Manayunk pa , I call it the other side of main street. Tell me what you like about it and what you dislike.

Some new drawings and a finished watercolor painting.The top one is a watercolor inspired by the eno river cotton mill in west hillsborough.The bottom one is of carrboro where east main street and east weaver street converge.

My scanner was down so i was not able to scan any of my finished pieces of art work or any of my sketches .I have two new sketches the top one is of the Raleigh Durham international airport while waiting for my moms luggage .The second drawing from the top was done today in chapel hill while eating at a Japanese called Kurami it was pouring rain outside everything was grayish .Before eating at Kurami we had gone to the Ackland museum of art where we saw coal iron and steam at the heart of progress art exhibit .The third drawing from the top is a commissioned work of art of San Fransisco with Alcatraz and the bay in the background .
james

Greensboro

I went to Greensboro this weekend because i was playing in a tennis tournament over at Barbra park and in between matches i decided to head in to Greensboro and ended up seeing some really cool buildings on elm street.There where also a lot of ghost signs which are old faded advertisements painted on the front and side of buildings.The pictures from top to bottom are an old ghost sign on a building and then a picture of elm street.I am starting a watercolor of the second picture from the top.
James

New sketches

Sketches done today ,The first one was done at Milltown in Carrboro where it was warm enough today to sit out side and sketch while eating yummy beer drowned bratwurst sausage in between a two pieces of baguette .The second one was done from open eye cafe also in carrboro which is a great little cafe ,you can see the Wendy's sign in the foreground and cliffs meat market in the background.The third and fourth sketches where done in Durham after seeing a wonderful photography show .The fourth sketch is of a railroad bridge near the American tobacco district .All of these where done in my moleskin watercolor sketch book.