Lone Star wheelhouse

           We made what should have been a quick pit stop after crossing the Mississippi at the Quad Cities. Well, after finding the Visitor Center down town along the river, we ended up at this museum to check out the only surviving wooden hulled Western Rivers style paddle wheel steamer that still exists.
           I started this sketch after Mom had already started for the car. For someone who spent some time himself working on the Kaw River in Kansas, this old tow boat that had been used for years in sand dredging operations on the Mississippi, this was quite a find.
           Done on 7" x 9" Canson 98# paper. It took me until today for things to settle down enough to finish the inking of what originally was a pencil sketch.