DAYLILLIES IN MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN

Wisconsin Daylillieds, 6 x 5 inch ink and watercolor by George C. Clark   SOLD

I sketched these daylillies one morning in July at the Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts when I was neither teaching or taking part in a workshop at the annual Woodlanders Gathering.

BELLY DANCE PERFORMANCE IN CHICAGO PARK

Belly Dance Performance, Independence Park, Chicago, 10 x 13 inch ink and colored pencil drawing
 by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

Sometimes I don't have to travel very far to find my subjects.  These ladies are part of a troupe from the Arabesque Dance Studios who did a belly dance performance the Sunday before last at this year's first Farmers Market in Independence Park, a short walk from where I live on the Northwest Side of Chicago.  They looked great, but constant motion made them as hard to draw from life as the alligators I tried to sketch in the Everglades last year.  So I did the same thing I did in Florida-- I photographed them and then sketched from my photos.

AUNT MARY'S BEGONIAS

Aunt Mary's Begonias, 6 x 5 inch ink and colored pencil drawing by George C. Clark   SOLD

We arrived early for a visit to my wife's Aunt Mary on the farm in Delphi, Indiana, and she wasn't home from an errand yet.  While waiting for her I sat on the deck outside her house and drew the flowers in one of her planters.