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)

MEIJER GARDEN POND, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

Meijer Garden Pond, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 9.5 x 9.5 inches ink, watercolor & colored pencil    AVAILABLE

I drew this water feature at the Meijer Gardens during a visit to Grand Rapids in October.  The bright green stuff floating at the edge of the water is duckweed

FLORIDA DUNES IN COLOR

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida,  8.5 x 15.5 inch ink, watercolor and colored pencil by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

Here is the full color version of a drawing I made on-site in Florida recently. 

JEKYLL ISLAND, GEORGIA

Where the Pirates Came Ashore, 8.5 x 14.5 ink and watercolor by George C. Clark    AVAILABLE

I drew this on Jekyll Island, one of the southernmost of the barrier islands along Georgia's Atlantic coast a few weeks ago.  It was an overcast day and in fact it rained while we were indoors having a late lunch of grilled freshly caught shrimp.  Afterwards we drove around the island and I found this spot to draw.  It looked like a sleepy tropical backwater and it felt like I was creating an illustration for a story like Treasure Island or Captain David Grief, so I gave it an appropriate title.  I had about finished the drawing when a gigantic ship came down the channel between the island and the Georgia mainland visible on the horizon.  It turns out that is a deepwater channel linking the port of Brunswick to the Atlantic Ocean.  The ship was as big as a container ship, but instead of being stacked with containers it was a big enclosed box with a huge hatch on its stern.  I had never seen anything like it, but I live in Chicago where we don't see many oceangoing ships.  When we drove back to Jacksonville I saw a similar ship docked further up the estuary next to a huge lot filled with thousands of brand new cars.

The Mystery Ship

GEORGE SQUARE, GLASGOW

George Square, Glasgow, 15 x 10 inch ink, watercolor and colored pencil by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

I drew this one afternoon last July in George Square in the heart of Glasgow's Merchant City.  That imposing building houses the City Chambers.  The column at the right is topped by a statue of Sir Walter Scott, the novelist.  Sir Walter is topped by a seagull, as are most of the statues in Glasgow.  An exception is the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in front of the Gallery of Modern Art, which is topped by an orange traffic cone.  I kid you not.

FLORIDA KEYS PELICAN

Brown Pelican, Plantation Key, Florida,  10 x 8 inch ink, watercolor and colored pencil drawing by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

Last spring one of the places we stopped at while driving up the keys from Key West to Miami was the Wild Bird Sanctuary on Plantation Key.  They rehabilitate injured wild birds there, and keep some that can't survive in the wild on display.  Others, like this wild brown pelican, just fly in and hang out because it's a cool place.

AUDUBON HOUSE, KEY WEST

Audubon House, Key West, 8 x 8.5 inch ink, watercolor and colored pencil by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

This is called the Audubon House because John James Aududon spent several weeks painting in the garden here in 1832 when he was working on his Birds of North America project.  The house here now was built about 20 years after Audubon's visit and is open to the public as a museum of Key West life in the mid-19th century.

 George C. Clark drawing the Audubon House               photo by Pat Clark

YELLOW HOUSE IN KEY WEST OLD TOWN

Yellow House, Key West, 10 x 8 inch ink, watercolor and colored pencil painting by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

I sketched this conch house in Key West's Old Town from the balcony of the Eden House hotel a couple of weeks ago.  I hadn't been to the Florida Keys since I was 11.  I enjoyed it then, but I appreciated the experience a lot more this time.

A ROOFTOP IN BERLIN

A ROOFTOP IN BERLIN

Airlift C-47 on the Roof of the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin, 13 x 16 inch ink, watercolor and colored pencil painting by George C. Clark    UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ART COLLECTION

Here is another painting from my visit to Germany last summer, although I painted this one recently from photographs I took on-site.  This American military transport plane is suspended by cables from a crane-like gantry over the roof of the new Deutsches Technikmuseum (what we would call a Museum of Science and Industry) in Berlin.   It is both a part of the museum's aviation collection and a salute to the Allied Airlift that saved the city when the Russians cut off ground transportation in 1948-9.  The plane is cantilevered to hang out over the facade of the building.  The photo below shows what it looks like when you are approaching the museum at ground level.  It's pretty spectacular.

Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin,  photo by George C. Clark