A few more from the Strathmore sketch pad
I filled my old 8" x 10" Strathmore drawing pad, so I got another one. I like the scale because it fits perfectly in my small mapcase bag. First, the Commerce Building from my last Strathmore. No idea why I didn't post this already, seeing as how I posted it on Urban Sketchers 3 weeks ago. This is a detail of the facade of the south side of the AT&T Building. The east side has by far the most detail, but little in the way of shade to sketch from. It's also a little bit intimidating. The south side seemed more manageable. Linda and I drove out to Fredericksburg for a day last week and I got this sketch done of the weird but cool Admiral Nimitz Museum on main street. There are a whole bunch of other cool buildings there I'd like to sketch at some point, but its difficult because the streets have diagonal pull-in parking, so there are no big gaps between cars to sketch the other side of the street. Many of the benches there also have this