Charleston - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

available, 11"x15"

prints also available

      This is from a photo I took in Charleston SC a couple years ago. The building is a 19th-century warehouse just a short block from the riverfront. In the 1990s it was converted into offices.

Archdale Street - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

available, 11"x15"

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      This is from a reference photo I took in Charleston last year. I'm beginning to think I should have taken more shots of the horse-drawn carriages. To me, at least, they seem quite dynamic in these otherwise fairly static streetscapes.

Concord Street - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

available, 11"x15"

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      Another one from Charleston SC.

St. Johns, Charleston - watercolor

watercolor, 2015

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      This is the third attempt at this image and I'm still not sure about it.

Sullivan's Island - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

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      I took a lot of reference photos during our September 2015 trip to Charleston, SC. When I took this one I knew it was kind of cliche. A photo of any kind of sailboat on the beach is on every real estate and tourism brochure for every coastal community in the world. But this one works, I think, since I framed the lighthouse in the rigging and I'm very happy with the looseness.

Charleston Terrace - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

available, 11"x15"

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      Here's another piece from my trip to Charleston SC last year. This is the back of a house visible from a grotto-like walkway that connected one street to a supposedly haunted cemetery.

88 Queen St. - watercolor

watercolor, 2015

available, 11"x15"

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      Another one from this year's trip to Charleston, SC before the flooding in October. I was drawn (no pun intended) by the shadows of the utility lines on the white door.

In Front Of St. Philips - watercolor

watercolor, 2015

available, 11"x15"

prints and gifts also available

      Spent a weekend in Charleston, SC this September just a couple weeks before the historic October flooding. There's a lot I like about this one, though I wasn't sure at first. I had done the background buildings too dark at first and had to rinse them out to lighten them sufficiently. I think I got a good morning haze/aerial perspective effect from an apparently happy accident. It isn't always about whether or not you make mistakes. It's also about how you handle and learn from them when they show up.

      Happy Thanksgiving!