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Pennsylvania Highway

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7"X5" Oil on board

It was last year around this time that I was in Pennsylvania but I seem to have been spending a lot of time on highways like this recently. It could be almost anywhere in the northeastern states really. Are those the Catskills, the Adirondacks, the Laurentians, the Appalachians? No, in this case they are probably the Alleghenies.

I love Pennsylvania, it is so well named. The sylvan forest seems to extend as far as the eye can see and the highways thread through it all, often skipping across the valleys on viaducts like the one in the distance.

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Ford City

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4″X6″ Marker on paper

Some of the games that the boys played in Pennsylvania last month were in Ford City. Actually, I think that the park was in “Ford Cliff” which overlooks Ford City, because this was the view from the park. According to Wikipedia:

Ford City is a borough in Armstrong County Pennsylvania, United States 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Pittsburgh along the east bank of the Allegheny River. It was founded in 1887 as a company town by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. The town was named in honor of the company founder, John Baptiste Ford. PPG shut down its Ford City operations in the 1990s. The population was 3,451 at the 2000 census. This is quite an impressive church (cathedral?) for a town of 3,451!

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The Potting Shed

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9″X6″ Watercolour on paper

Here is a multi-purpose building, potting shed with attached raised bed. The orange buckets on the far side are to catch the runoff water, this is then used to water other parts of the garden. I have almost run out of Pennsylvania sketches now. I have a few more from the baseball games and I may do a couple from my photographs.I seem to be developing an affinity for sheds, this has become one of my favourite blogs.

I must build up another reserve because I am going away again at the end of the month.

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Foot Bridge

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6″X4″ Watercolour & WC pencil on paper

Well I am back, after a week of driving all over Western Pennsylvania. The boys were playing in the Freeport International Baseball Invitational and the games were scattered all over, many were an hour’s drive apart (“just down the road”). Still the weather mostly stayed pretty fair and I got to spend some time with my very good friend. I didn’t do as much painting as I would have liked but I did do some watercolour sketches and a few tone-studies in marker. I may post some of these studies, or I may wait until I have done something more with them, I took lots of photos too.

Here is a watercolour sketch of the little plank bridge that crosses the creek between the house and the orchard where we stayed.

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