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.