My oldest playing Animal Crossing
My youngest, who will not sit still long enough for me to finish any drawings of her - gotta work on my speed sketching. Both of these sketches were done in a sketchbook that I hand bound and put together from a pack of Arches Watercolor paper that I cut down. I made this one and another one that is longer. Had a lot of fun - could turn out to be a new obsession for me.
Taken from a parking spot and looking across the marsh toward the Sullivan's Island Lighthouse. This area is at the end of Pitt Street in Mount Pleasant and is known as the Pickett Bridge Recreation area. It's been pretty busy with with people fishing and crabbing any time that I have been there.
This is at the site of the old Charleston Blueprint store - now closed, unfortunately.
This is an area of Charleston that is currently being revitalized. It is part of what is known as the Noisette area of North Charleston. Twenty years ago this area was a shipyard. Heres a Google street view: 
An overcast day with a view of port side container cranes at the Wando Terminal in Mount Pleasant - viewed from Magnolia Cemetery.
This is an elderly/assisted living facility in the upper peninsula of downtown Charleston. Check out site with Google maps:
This is the Town of Mount Pleasant water tower as viewed from the National Guard Armory on Houson Northcutt Blvd. Found a photo from a similar direction here: Link
Ink & wash of the SC Employment Commission building on Lockwood Boulevard in Downtown Charleston. Viewed from Brittlebank Park.
Drew this from the Charleston Supply parking lot. Trying to simplify things a little - just ink and wash on this one.
Looking through a couple of buildings on Morrison Drive in Charleston towards I-26. It was a beautiful sunset -
This is at the park located behind Alhambra Hall in Mount Pleasant. It overlooks Charleston Harbor - Downtown Charleston is across the way. Always lots of action at noon - picnics and folks playing with dogs. On this day a guy was entertaining his child by doing handstands.
An office building on Charleston's upper peninsula. Probably a good example of 60's architecture.
This is an old brick building off of Morrison Drive in upper Charleston. They sell commercial and recreational marine survival gear. I never knew they existed before I stopped and sketched at this spot. Here's their website: Air-Sea Safety & Survival
This is a concrete truck loading facility near downtown Charleston in what is known as the "neck" area. Mostly a mix of industrial business, lower income housing and fringe businesses like tattoo parlors and "dance" clubs.
Lunchtime sketch at Brittlebank Park - Looking over the Ashley River towards the marina and the round Holiday Inn. The weather is a little cold this week - in the 40's and 50's during the daylight hours and upper 20's/lower 30's at night. Probably not really that cold for those who live in the North, I suppose...
Downtown Charleston, Rutledge Avenue - Parked at Colonial Lake and sketched for a few minutes - got a few curious looks from lunch walkers.
This church was viewed from Hampton Park, Downtown Charleston.
A little plein aire watercolor done at the end of Pitt Street in Mount Pleasant. Caught a huge sailboat as it was headed into the harbor. Below is a sketch of the Sullivan's Island Lighthouse.
This is from a neat little spot at the end of Pitt Street in Mount Pleasant. The road kind of ends and there is a path that juts out into the inlet there. Seems to be a popular place for crabbers and fishers. View of condos on Sullivan's Island in the distance.
A couple of sketches in my new sketchbook that my dear wife got me as a surprise. Not sure why the bottom one ended up at such a strange tilt...
Did this quickie last night. I always feel like a cheater when I use a photo, but it was fun anyways. It's very small, maybe 4"x6" or so. I've been to this spot to sketch a number of times. You get a nice view of downtown (straight ahead) and if you could pan around to the left you would see Fort Sumter in the harbor. If you look at my title header up at the top of this site you can see a detail of this same view and see what I left out of this view. I had so much fun doing this one I plan on working on some more in the future...
Char watching AG play her DS while mom surfs. Don't look too closely at the M.C. Escher couch cushion - I got lost when I was outlining stuff...
More salt marshes - seems to be a recurring theme. They are such a normal sight around here that we really kind of take them for granted. The top thumbnails and following watercolor sketch are from Hog Island (the bottom thumbnail shows Fort Sumter). The bottom watercolor sketch is from Shem Creek.
Sketches done on different days at the same location with different media. The last one ended up being a watercolor mess, but I ended up kind of liking it - that's what happens when you use a brush that's too big for the job...
Some miscellaneous sketches in the family room - mostly using laptops and nintendo ds's....
