#176 – BLOCK ISLAND, OLD HARBOR VIEW

Another Perfect 10 on the Block!

This is a regatta week, so on top of your typical amazing views, add in one hundred sail boats circling the island, just for good measure.

This morning I started sketching out some of my favorite Victorian buildings down in Old Harbor. There is something about old architecture and vacations. They harken us all back to a simpler time. A time when things were built with the utmost integrity and designed to beautify one’s local. There was such an amazing attention to detail and quite frankly, things then were built to last.

Most of us would like to escape to a place like that right?

Block Island’s Old Harbor is loaded with Victorian gems.

It took me quite a bit of time to draw in all the little details in this 16″x16″ Sakura Pigment drawing. Tomorrow I’m going to paint it. I get to add color and bring this work to life. My favorite part!

I’m going to spend the rest of this post sharing some of my favorite photos from the day:

Here were two cool rusty iron objects my daughter found beach combing. She is always on the hunt for strange man-made artifacts. No shells for my little one. You should have seen her lugging that crank shaft up the cliff. It was way too heavy for her, but she was determined she was bringing this art sculpture home! God Bless her soul.

OMG. I totally stopped to smell these roses!!!

I’m a sucker for a lone tree.

I have no idea what these are. They were growing wild in the field. Their color was very faded as if the sun had been beating down on them for centuries. I just loved their texture juxtaposed against the wheat.

We finished up the day with a hike out to watch the sun set. The clouds were moving in. It was not looking promising, but man am I glad we saw it through. At just the right moment, the bright red sun pierced through the clouds and gave us a knock-out sunset.