Poppies

Toward the end of last week, I drew poppies in remembrance of lives lost in World War I.

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place;...." John McCrae

Gettysburg

Little Round Top, just below the Maine wall

We visited Gettysburg National Park and Museum. I hardly know what to say; the scope of suffering during and after the battle is humanly incomprehensible.

 Gettysburg museum, from the refreshment deck

burning bush

The other day I saw a row of euonymus alatus, beginning to turn. Fall is in the air.

Wet in wet watercolor, followed by ink, then a little watercolor pencil.

Autumn is here

Fall in Ohio brings pumpkins, chrysanthemums, and Buckeye football.

Sweet autumn clematis

The sweet autumn clematis is blooming with wild abandon once more--as it has every fall, without fail, at both our houses.

The aging grill, huddled beneath its cover, looks like a little black ghost, awaiting Halloween.

This was my first try at using masking fluid. The contents of my three-year- old jar have taken on the consistency of marshmallow crème, so it went on in clumps. I used a small, inexpensive craft brush to apply it. Waiting through the drying time does add a significant amount of time to the sketching process, as I expected.

St. Patrick's Episcopal Church

Mental health drawing the last day before the election. St. Patrick is reputed to have chased all the snakes from Ireland into the sea.

Waldorf Salad

Fall apples are here.

Playing with hand lettering: Dr. Ph. Martin's Radiant Watercolor, Uniball Vision Elite pen, small Cachet sketchbook.

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.

Koosje Koene's Fall Feast, Re-visited

Koosje has once again posted her autumn pattern video. (My sketches lose resolution in translation through the Blogger app.)

Note: I think the pots toward the left on the bottom were drawn from life, large urns outside the school entrance.

Autumn Leaves

Old Man's Cave

Indian Run Falls

Rainy Day, View from Tim Horton's

Ballantrae Park in Autumn

(Here I was wishing to try a Stillman & Birn sketchbook. Mattias Adolfsson Sketchbook Skool assignment: meta drawing.)

Farm Market in the Fall

Leaves courtesy of Koosje Koene's Fall Feast tutorial.