July 24, 2007


home from vacation

I’ll return to making drawings of Pittsburgh next Monday. Meanwhile, here are half a dozen paintings made while I was on Cape Ann, in Massachusetts. (Gouache on various colors of mat board.)

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(Daily drawings and the contents of a vacation sketchbook are posted on my blog.)

posted by Elizabeth Perry in art, environment, nature 

comments

9 Responses to “home from vacation”

  1. Deron Bauman on July 24th, 2007 at 11:39 pm

    welcome back, Elizabeth, it’s great to see your work.

  2. Michael Grant Smith on July 25th, 2007 at 9:07 am

    Beautiful. I especially like #1 and #4.

  3. Sheila Ryan on July 25th, 2007 at 9:24 am

    So it was Cape Ann! (I’d been checking out your vacation sketchbook off and on.)

    And . . . I had hoped I might be in Chicago this week, but, alas, it is not to be. Maybe once I’m settled (by fall, I hope), I’ll take the Dollar Bus to Pittsburgh!

  4. Elizabeth Perry on July 25th, 2007 at 6:54 pm

    Take the Dollar Bus to Pittsburgh any time - we’d love to see you! (That’s how I’m getting to and from Chicago - a night bus caught on a street corner for an impossible-sounding price - seems like something out of Harry Potter. Perhaps I can channel the Provincial Lady and write a review…)

  5. Sheila Ryan on July 26th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    Elizabeth, I hope you recorded at least one impression of the Dollar Bus — its interior, your fellow travelers — in your sketchbook. I hope you did so in the dead of night when only a few little dome or reading lights were on.

  6. Elizabeth Perry on July 26th, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    I was, alas, too sleepy. Perhaps on the way home. The bus was approximately 1/3 full, so I don’t see how they are making a go of it. Hope they stay in business through Sunday, as it’s a long walk home.

  7. alek on July 27th, 2007 at 1:02 am

    these are beautiful elizabeth, and watercolours got to be the most difficult medium to pull off

  8. Sheila Ryan on July 27th, 2007 at 11:41 am

    ” . . . it’s a long walk home . . . . ”

    On the other hand, the Ohio Turnpike is so very scenic. I always wonder how much I’m missing as I whizz along it at highway speed.

  9. Elizabeth Perry on July 27th, 2007 at 11:56 pm

    I’m sure I should know better than to read a comment you’ve written while sitting in the back of a crowded conference session. Was shaking with suppressed laughter…