On Location Milwaukee

water tower

windows

decorations

remnants

Chris and Ellie

Seems like everyone is so busy lately. Hard to know when we can resume some drawing togetherness. In the meantime, I'm posting a few pictures I've been taking with my happy snaps camera.

I had a mini Onlocation session at Mary's house yesterday. Despite spending most of the time catching up, I managed to make a couple of iPad sketches. I realized that Mary has yet to post to the blog. This needs to be rectified as Mary has great drawings from our outings and she also has some awesome on location drawings from Berlin and Panama.

Basket

Gourds

Still trying to get a handle on this digital painting medium. I agree with Chris that the faux brush globby stokes are distracting. I think it's a "loading" issue.

View of the winding path to the beach.

Flag pole between the parking lot and bike rack.

Today Ariana, Paula, John and I rode our bikes to Klode Park in Whitefish Bay for some drawing. I've been to the parking lot of Klode Park before, in January, but I've never spent any time there. I was very impressed with the landscaping and the beautiful views of the lake and bluff. In fact I was kind of overwhelmed and had a hard time getting started. All the scenery just seemed too expansive for my little hand held drawing device. Once I decided on something I felt was manageable, like the flag pole, I got into it.

My bicycle.

The H-D museum with the Teweles seed company in the background

Ariana drawing.

Ariana drawing the St. Mary's Cement silos while sitting beneath the 6th. St. viaduct.

Ariana and I rode our easy to handle, quite, peddle powered bicycles to the Harley-Davidson Museum to draw. The landscaping on the H-D grounds is really nice, lots of what I think are native plantings. We parked underneath the 6th St. viaduct for the shade and drew what we could see from there. Tuna melts at the restaurant and then back home.

Chris and I had a nice ride over to the valley. We parked ourselves under the 6th Street Viaduct. Lunch afterwards at the HD cafe and then a ride back along the lakefront. Milwaukee is a fantastic city in the summer! We heard gospel music as we biked through the Lake Shore State Park and we took in the Air Show. If only the government would throw as much money at education and infrastructure as it does at the military.

Cement Factory drawing

Cement Factory drawing and painting

Cement Factory digital painting