Sunrise behind the Water Tower

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If I’m lucky, when I take Cowboy over to Rahilly Park for his morning constitutional, I can catch the sun coming up as I cross El Portal in relation to the Water Tower next to the Merced County Fire Department, McKee Station. This morning the timing was just right, and I captured it on my iPhone. I had been wanting to sketch that scene in a digital drawing using Procreate. Today was the day. In a previous post I featured the same water tower from a different angle and at another time of day in a drawing in Paper 53.

Sunrise behind the water tower

Sunrise behind the water tower Click image to enlarge to full size – 3508 x 2480 © Paul J. Longo

Old GMC Pickup Truck…1961? on El Portal

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This beauty caught my eye earlier today while I was walking Cowboy. It’s either a 1960 or 1961 GMC pickup truck.
I took this iPhone photo around 7:45 am, imported it into Procreate, and sketched it side by side, freehand.

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Old GMC Pickup on El Portal

Neighborhood Schoolbus

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Neighborhood Schoolbus

Schoolbus pulling onto El Portal from Cascade Creek in the morning. I wanted to catch it rounding the corner behind the stop sign with my iPhone camera.

I used the photo reference to render a side by side, freehand sketch in Procreate followed by final processing in iColorama.

olah (עֹלָה)

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That which goes up (in smoke). Etymology.

olah

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Preliminary quadrangular drawing done in Sketch Club followed by tweaking and photo editing in Procreate.

Early Yesterday Morning

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That’s when Cowboy and I saw this old car in nearby Rahilly Park.
I’ve sketched other vehicles, click here to view.
Early Yesterday Morning

Procreate

Underground Metanoia

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A few days ago on Fresh Air Terry Gross interviewed Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber. This image came to mind during the interview while Bolz-Weber was describing how, in some instances, perhaps more often than we’re inclined to believe, church basements are where things are really happening.

underground metanoia

Hankie

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Started this one in Sketch Club, but I couldn’t export the image to my iPhotos because of a glitch associated with today’s iPad operating system update, which has imbalanced the heck out of a couple of apps. So I screen shot the captive image and opened it up in Procreate and iColorama, where I tweaked away without signing it. I kinda’ like it, so I’m posting it before hitting the sack.
Hankie