Murphy-Bromelsick from the south

It was mid September when I made a couple quick runs up to Hobbs Park to do sketches primarily of the old house that sits on the north west corner of the park. The plan is over the next few days to post some of the work that came of those trips.  Some of the drawings have no date. Some barely have a signature. Makes it a bit hard to pinpoint when they were done. But in this case, there is both a date and a signature on the drawing. Such a sketching excursion doesn't take much planning, but it does take being ready with pencil and paper when there is a break in the schedule. 

Me thinks this was the first “inkie” I did after getting out of the truck. I was still a couple hundred feet from the building. This actually is the type of sketch I like to do when sipping down the highway. But it is not as easy to do when you are on your feet and not in a hurry to catch an image. So the idea this day was to calm down and from some distance fill a page or two with quick ink sketches that catch some of the character of the place.

This small drawing is only a few inches square. It was done with a gel pen in a 9 x 12 inch Canson Recycled Drawing pad.