Ducks seem to stick it out up here all year round. You can almost always find these guys bobbing along the river near our house somewhere if you keep an eye out for them.
Entries Tagged as 'Chicago'
Chicago River Life
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Animals, Chicago, Ink, Nature, Sketchbook
Tags:Animals·Chicago·Ink·Nature·Sketchbook
In the Field
January 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Chicago, Ink, Nature
Inspired by my “Sketching in Nature” classmates, I am starting an ongoing project, documenting the forest area along the North Branch of the Chicago River. My goal is to record the changes in the trees and plants of the area over the course of a year. I’ve already learned something by just wandering around and starting to pay attention. There’s a lot of green out there — even in January!
Lincoln Park Conservatory
January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Botanical, Chicago, Pencil
Since it’s cold out, we spent the morning inside the wonderful Lincoln Park Conservatory. Paul and a friend took photographs while I sketched. The somewhat washed out drawing at the top is the entrance to the Palm House, the one in the middle is from a couple of different buildings, and the one on the bottom is from the Fern House.
The Bean
January 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Chicago, Ink, Urban
Summer Sights
July 29th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Architecture, Chicago, Ink
I haven’t posted in awhile, but I have been drawing. Here are some things we’ve seen on bike rides over the last few weeks.
Waveland Fieldhouse on the Lakefront
An old grist mill near the Fox River bike trail (in Dundee?)
The Art Institute
Japanese Garden at the Botanic Garden
Tags:Architecture·Chicago·Ink
Shoin House
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Architecture, Botanical, Chicago, Ink
Today, we took a long bike ride up through the Forest Preserve and the Skokie Lagoons to the Chicago Botanic Garden. We had lunch there and did a little walking around. The best part was the Japanese Island. You cross a longish wooden foot bridge to get to it, and then you can wander around on an elaborate series of paths that wind through traditional Japanese landscape features and garden elements. This drawing is of a Shoin House — a structure from the Edo Period that was designed to merge the outdoors with the indoors through the incorporation of sliding panels in the walls. I also really liked the Zigzag Bridge. Apparently, evil spirits move only in straight lines, so they can’t follow you if you cross a zigzag bridge.
Tags:Architecture·Botanical·Chicago·Ink
Things you see on a bike ride . . .
June 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Chicago, Ink
Today we rode our bikes over to the Dixie Kitchen in Evanston via the Skokie Sculpture Park path. This is one of the sculptures we saw. It’s called “Heartburn” and is by Karl Friedrich. Here’s a photo:
