Texture test

I did this line drawing early one evening, while waiting to pick up a pizza, adding watercolor pencil and watercolor later. I experimented with adding texture by scraping through it with a piece of old, cut-up credit card.

I have seen several urban sketchers use this technique--most recently, Paul Wang, from Singapore.

Drive-thru

During busy lunch hours, Chick-Fil-A demonstrates amazingly efficient coordination of staff, along its drive-thru queue. The first takes orders; the second gives receipts as you round the corner of the building; the third delivers drinks and small orders from the open window, back along the waiting line of vehicles. A driver with a large order doesn't slow the flow. (A flagpole goes up the middle of the sketch.)

Textures

These are textures and materials viewed from the Kroger parking lot: awning, brick, bicycle rack, bushes, shingles, stone (with downspout), faux gable window.
When I was young, we shopped at a Kroger built on the edge of a parking lot decked with sculptures of the Seven Wonders of the World. Those were the days.

Further reading about Ivan Pusecker, Walk of Wonders artist:
Pusecker family featured at Church at Mill Run

Sunny Street Cafe

Need to practice ellipses.

Rainy day garage sale

Amigos

Perimeter at night

Game Day

Football traffic backed up, hours before the game.  Christmas-colored tail gate tents lined parking lots along the road.  Pedicabs left us in their dust.  We escaped through San Margherita, where we waited again--this time on a train.

On the road to Holmes County

Fall foliage

Rolling hills, farm buildings

A little wine-tasting tent stood in the drizzle, on the edge of a parking lot in Millersburg.