TWiLIGHT AT THE MARINA IN NASHVILLE

Twilight at the Marina, 13 x 9 inch ink and watercolor by George C. Clark   SOLD

A little over a month ago, just before the coronavirus plague, I was in Tennessee visiting relatives and celebrating family birthdays.  There is a marina on Percy Priest Lake about a mile from my sister's house in Nashville, but it's not as visually interesting as the marina on the far side of the Percy Priest Dam, so that's where I went to sketch.  I made the ink drawing on-site and finished the painting at home with the addition of watercolor and a few touches of colored pencil.

UPDATE!

 I am happy to announce that this painting is in the current WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT, OR ARE WE? exhibition at Stola Gallery in Chicago, and it has been sold. (August 11, 2020)

SAN MARCO, VENICE IN 1976

San Marco Façade, Venice, 9 x 12 inch ink drawing by George C Clark   AVAILABLE

Here's a real blast from the past!  I recently found this little drawing in an old file I hadn't opened on decades.  It was originally a page from the book of heavy Canson paper in which I began my series of on-site "Traveler's Sketchbook" watercolors when my wife and I were touring Europe by train in the late summer and fall of 1976.  The watercolors I did on that trip are mostly long since sold, but in those early days  I was only showing watercolor paintings in my exhibitions and this drawing got filed away never exhibited.  Ten years later I began working sometimes in the medium of ink and watercolor for this series.  In the last decade as my mobility has declined I have begun doing ink drawings on-site and adding color at home, or sometimes exhibiting the ink drawings without color. 

For this drawing I did the light linework with a Rapidograph technical drawing pen with a no.1 or no. 0 point.  The heavy blacks were added with a Sharpie felt-tip pen.  I just looked at a blown-up map of the Piazza San Marco to determine that I did the drawing at one of the outermost tables of the Caffe Quadri's outdoor seating.   This Caffe has been there since the 18th Century.  It was expensive in 1976 and I understand the prices are even more outrageous today.  However, I got a real kick out of sipping Campari-and-sodas at an establishment previously patronized by Casanova,  William Dean Howells, Richard Wagner, Thomas Mann and Federico Fellini.    

AT AN OUTDOOR ART FAIR

Art Fair, 7 x 8 inch ink drawing by George C. Clark    AVAILABLE

 I drew this little sketch some years ago at an outdoor art fair at Beverly Art Center on Chicago's far south side. This was at their old location, a few blocks east of where they are now.