WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT ?

First of all, let me explain my blog title:
Raleigh - INSIDE&OUT.

If you were born in the old Rex Hospital in the early 50's like I was, you weren't born INSIDE the Beltline. You were just born and lived IN Raleigh. Period.

It wasn't until the early 80's, when the Cliff Benson Beltline was finished that homes and their residents and pets were assigned the titles "Born Inside The Beltline" or "All Those Other People," otherwise known as "Outside The Beltline."

As a result, at the ripe old age of 30-something, I became an Inside The Beltliner through no fault of my own except being born to parents that owned a home on St. Mary's Street.

So, now let me explain what you'll be doing here. You will be following my journey, through sketching and lettering, while I meander Inside and Outside the Beltline.

I'm new at this, so I hope I either give you inspiration to try your hand at it as well, a boost to your ego because you've found someone who's not as good as you are (yet), or at least a good laugh!

In any case, come with me. Be my passenger. And let's enjoy this journey together!!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Cancun




Okay, so you probably thought I'd abandoned you. No, just in Cancun at my niece's Destination Wedding! Since we stayed in a resort, the scenery stayed the same. Therefore, all I managed to do were two pages of sketches. The one with the buildings was our view from the eating veranda. Pools were encircling them. I pencil sketched it while sipping coffee and eating breakfast.

The other page has vignettes of random things. I like that page better, the way I managed the watercolors.

With the Horse's Head Statue, I drew the whole thing in one continuous line. Can you figure out where I started and where I ended?

(Yep, misspelled Palladium!)


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