Harvard's Lowell Hall

Harvard's Lowell Hall

Oil

7x5

I painted this for the art challenge at The Virtual Paintout. I love the premise of this challenge which is to paint from Google Map's street view. I found the blog over the holidays and this was the perfect one to start out with as I used to live in Boston and I absolutely love it there! After "walking around" for quite while I finally decided upon this building on Oxford Street which turns out to be Lowell Hall at Harvard University.

Boston's South End Pen and Ink Finished!

Boston South End

Pen and Ink

8.5x10

Here it is! I've completed my pen and ink/watercolor? (did I originally say this was also going to be a watercolor?) of Boston's South End. I decided in the end to skip the watercolor on this one. I think the subject matter and the fact that I put in so much detail with the pen and ink warrants keeping this black and white.

I had some photos which I'd like to work with printed up today and I also have a bunch of illustrations for a children's book which I desperately need and want to work on. Unfortunately, I don't feel I'm in the mental mode to get back to those yet. I may pick one of those up next week. In the mean time, I think my heart is calling out to the pastels! While I'm working on that I've got the initial sketch for the first of the children's book illustrations set up on my desk where I can let my subconscious work through where I'm going to go with those style and media-wise as this seems to be my hang up on getting those past the sketch stage.