Nice building, downtown Manhattan

All pens filled with Noodler's Black, except the Staedtler liner. I thought this was a beautiful doorway. It's down on West 4th not too far from the Blue Note Jazz Lounge.


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Low Memorial Library

This is the famous Low Memorial Library at Columbia University. It was designed in a classical revival (Roman) style by Charles McKim of the famed firm of McKim, Mead and White. The library was started in 1894 and was completed a few years later. In the front it has a beautiful Bonze sculpture of Alma Mater by Daniel Chester French.



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Boat in Mexico

I managed to paint a little while on vacation in Cancun. I was away with my whole family so finding time to stray away was difficult because of my nieves and nephews, but in the end I did a few paintings.

This is a nice scene I bumped into walking around the beach.





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Oil City, Oceanside

I managed this in about an hour and twenty minutes. I wish I could have worked on it a little longer, but my friend and I were attacked by mosquitos, so we packed up and ran for the hills. I'm still happy with the outcome.

Perhaps it was serendipity that made the mosquitos attacked us before I pushed the painting too far.



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St. Thomas the Apostle.

This is a quick sketch of a church I like in West Hempstead, NY.




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Saint Demetrios in Merrick

Sketching in Merrick. Found this beautiful Greek Orthodox Church.



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Grisaille portrait

9"x12" oil sketch of a friend. Painting in Grisaille. I like where this painting is right now. I might continue another day, or not. I'm not sure, but I am happy with the way it looks as is.




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