Bright Winter Canal

Today was a bright sunny day. One can walk in the woods now without sinking in below your feet.

Quarry Face

This may be the last quarry for a while. Back to the canal and other things.

Another in a Series

Another of the same view of the canal under again different conditions. The snow is starting to melt, and the canal ice cleared away a couple days ago. I had to get my feet wet for this one.

Looking into the Quarry

These two drawings look down into the quarry towards the entrance.

Delaware River in Winter

This is the view at the end of my street. When driving a car, one either has to turn right or left. It's a quick 8x10 sketch on Canson paper.

Woods and Brook

It's not a law firm. A view from this morning when the snow stopped briefly.

Dense Woods 2

Getting a bit more expansive, but still a little dull. It's like a Wolf Kahn negative. I will try to liven it up more as we proceed along the path by the snowy woods.

Dense Woods

This is another variety of a nothing pastel, a small 5x7 impression of looking into the woods, when the sky and the ground are the same color, and the trees are densely packed. I have wanted to do a series of looking into the woods. I think the woods look back.

I am not done with the canal, or the quarry, or the whatever. I just keep doing different series, like the way I read. I usually have several books going at the same time too.

Querying the Quarry

This may be an instance that the drawing beats the painting. One doesn't learn anything by not trying. This view peers into the quarry from one of the top corners. I had followed some animal tracks that went straight down the side right at the "v" in the bottom middle. The critter seems to have scrambled back up.

On the Canal after the Snow Storm

The canal is quite different right now, so I took a break from the quarry. The b&w is small, 5+x8. The pastel is 8x10. After his daily walks, Thoreau wrote in his journal. I draw and paint instead, keeping a visual journal.

Querying

Since I spent the morning moving a lot of snow around, and I am a bit worn out, I decided to do a couple of black and white drawings. The first drawing above is the preparatory drawing for yesterday's quarry edge view. I am showing it since I like it. The top two drawings show the quarry entrance from outside, and the entrance from inside.

In the Quarry

I didn't fall in.

More Quarry

This is a little closer to the edge.

Still Quarrying

Now I will try to push more to the edge, pun intended.

Another Quarry Drawing

Previously I mentioned holes in paintings. There's depth in this image, but it goes down. It's Bob's Bibemus.