Thumbnail Sketches, Charleston, SC

Some thumbnail sketches - top is of downtown Charleston - Hampton Park and areas near The Citadel, and below is just some scribble-scrabble taken around Mount Pleasant - both on the same day.

Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, SC

View from Mount Pleasant of Fort Sumter where the first official shots of the Civil War were fired. Unfortunately my eyesight is not that great and it looks more like a whale with flags sticking out - may try to do another one looking from James Island (which you can see beyond); it's much closer to the fort from that side...

Mark's Crops, Gray Court, SC

My brother's vast crop for 2009 - an ingenious use of an old fenced in dog run to grow corn, tomatoes, beans, etc. - keeps the deer and rabbits out.

Gray Court, SC

View of my brother's backyard this past memorial day weekend - it was wet but we had a great time anyways - it doesn't take much for my family to be entertained. Happy Birthday, Mark!

Middleton Sketches

Some miscellany from our trip to Middleton Plantation and Fort Sumter back in January of this year.

Daisies in a Bottle

Episcopal Church, Mount Pleasant, SC

The Atonement Reformed Episcopal Church on Fifth Street in Mount Pleasant, SC. The little thumbnail sketches to the right are at Remley's Point Marina - the parking lot and a tugboat pushing a barge.

AG at the Piano

Quick sketch of my daughter at the piano - no lessons and she's pretty good!

Palmetto

A mini-painting that I gave mom for mother's day - a little from reality and a little from my imagination - 4.5"x6" or so on Arches 140# cold press. Thanks mom!

Marsh View, Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC

View Across the Cooper River, Charleston, SC

View across the Cooper River looking at the port in Downtown Charleston. Taken from near the Yorktown at Patriots Point in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC

This is a little pond near where the soldiers for the Confederate submarine The Hunley are buried.