Cavalia Big Top
Another view. I couldn't resist returning to the Cavalia big top for another sketch, see 2/17/2012; this time on a larger format page. I blocked in the sky ...
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17 Apr
Gazebo, DeMenil Place
Gazebo, DeMenil Place
Private garden.Beyond a picket fence and surrounded by dogwoods, oaks and shrubbery, this view from the sidewalk of a gazebo in a private garden was ...
16 Apr
Grafitti Wall
Grafitti Wall
Legal grafitti. While grafitti is considered to be criminal defacement of property and a sure sign of urban decay there is a place in St. Louis where it is ...
11 Apr
Alley, DeMenil Place
Alley, DeMenil Place
Alley view. An alley is literally a back of the house view but offers the sketch hunter the visual challenge: How do you represent the scene in an ...
10 Apr
Up on the roof…
Up on the roof…
Satellite dishes. The stair well on top floor of the Keiner Plaza East parking garage bristles with satellite dishes. Like all forms of clutter after awhile they become invisible ...
08 Apr
Wainwright tomb, Bellefontaine Cemetery
Wainwright tomb, Bellefontaine Cemetery
Louis Sullivan designed one of the most sublime architectural creations anywhere for Ellis Wainwright in 1891. The arrangement of simple forms and the restrained use surface embellishments ...
07 Apr
Portico, Missouri Botanical Garden
Portico, Missouri Botanical Garden
Elegant garden folly. Now preserved as a garden feature in the Temperate House, this classical stone porticco was the entrance to St. Leo's Catholic School built in 1902. According to ...
18 Feb
Cavalia big top
Cavalia big top
Cavalia big top. Often the best way to paint an object is not to paint it all but rather paint the shadow shapes that define its form, especially the ...
25 Jan
Church, Elsah, IL
Church, Elsah, IL
United Methodist Curch. The entire village of Elsah is nestled in a wooded ravine that is accessed by traveling north on the scenic Great River Road from ...
16 Jan
Elijah Lovejoy memorial, Alton, IL
Elijah Lovejoy memorial, Alton, IL
Winter view on Monument Street.Although the tragic events occured more than 100 years prior to the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. it seems appropriate to ...
Author: Michael Anderson