Art Spirals

Here's a historic apartment building that I sketched earlier in the year. Today I had the wonderful opportunity to tour it and six other historic buildings in the Sunset Heights Historical District of El Paso. This is the area where people would sit on their front porches and watch the battles of the Mexican Revolution occuring on the other side of the Rio Grande. It was the first part of El Paso that had running water and a sewer system, as I learned at another house on the tour today. This apartment building is beautiful, loads of gorgeous details, hidden courtyards, I'm so glad I had a chance to go inside!

From Daily Drawing...

I took some liberties with the drawing, I omitted a huge cypress tree that is in front of the left window...the pictures inside the building showed how big the trees were when the building was newly built in 1917; the trees were barely taller than my daughters and now they are immense!

I also sketched a new building at UTEP that day

From Daily Drawing...

that features the university's distinctive Bhutanese architecture.