Two more sketches from the sketchbook I recently finished . The top sketch is of a 1920s apartment building in Durham and the one below is of a Grain elevator in Warsaw NC.

I just finished my 4th sketchbook and though i should share some highlights from this sketchbook. I finished it in a record 45 days . I tried to do more "still life" sketches in this sketch book.

2 weekends ago I was in Charlotte for one night while visiting a friend a did about 6 drawings total i was not too happy about all of them except these two. The sketch of the Mc Donalds sign was in the suburbs of Charlotte as we were driving out of town. Charlotte is a really great city and i can not wait to come back i saw about one percent of Charlotte on my visit so i have plenty to look forward to on my next visit.

I went sketching in Durham today, I spent a hour at the Nasher looking at exhibit of Andy Warhol Polaroids i have to say I was not too impressed i know they were reference point for some of his work and they are not actually his real artwork. But still it was a bunch of unidentified people in the photos or his "room mate" in the photos. After wards we drove into Durham and we parked in the lot of the new train station which i have to say is really nice. I managed to sketch two more buildings but the scanner does not seem to be working . This sketch is of the Hill building designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon the same firm that designed the Empire state building in New York.

last Monday since it was a hoilday i went out with my dad to the Greenbridge condos site to sketch the construction site . I used a Japanese style moleskin which folds in and out like an accordion. I was able to do three sketches i will post the other two sometime this coming week.

I was on the Greenbridge website and saw that the condos should be complete by spring this year so i though I should post the latest sketches of the condos that I have done. The condos are really coming along they are starting to install windows and some of the outside brick skin is complete. I plan on drawing the condos sometime this coming week .

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.

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.

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.