Art Spirals

I haven't made the time to sketch every day, as I was in the beginning of the year, but here are the sketches I have been able to do this fall. In continuing with yesterday's theme, here's another piece of El Paso architecture. I had fifteen minutes between appointments and I drove around downtown looking for the right combination of a neat building AND a perfectly situated parking space to draw...it's the combination of the two that's hard to find! anyway, near where they are building the new federal courthouse, stands the Church of the Immaculate Conception , built in 1892, and the cupola on it is interesting to draw. So here's a fifteen minute sketch from my car:

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When we were traveling through Socorro, NM, there's a lovely little bungalow in the heart of the town that I"m fascinated by. So whenever we're there, I try to drive by and see it. This was the first sketch I was able to do with the whole family in the car...the kids had enough to occupy themselves, as did my husband with whatever electronic gizmo he had brought, so I was able to get a sketch in. I only did enough of the detail to remember it, and took the photo too, I don't think my family would have been able to sit still while I sketched in every shingle and siding element!

Here's a photo of the house and then the sketch:

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In Socorro, there's a fun restaurant/brewery and I sketched the open pizza kitchen from our table, again while kids chattered, colored, begged me to read Harry Potter no. 2, etc.

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And then a pizza/restaurant closer to home, Ardovino's Desert Crossing, this is their outside pizza oven and outside door. This was a restaurant on the way to CA before the interstate came through, and it was featured in Life magazine, etc. I've heard the food is great and the setting is gorgeous, that I CAN attest to. Oh nuts, I didn't scan the pizza oven picture, but here's the door:

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