On My Drawing Table: Author Portraits, Washington Irving

The third in my (very slow to put together) series of author portraits.

 

I completed the pencil sketch last year,

 



After researching images of Washington Irving ...

I also wanted to combine an image of one of his most popular stories, like I have done with Poe.

 



 

 I think that my image has shaved about 20 years off of the one I used for

research. But that is not necessarily a bad thing :)

 

Prints of him will appear on my etsy site tomorrow. And I will be bringing

them along to the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Craft Fair,

 

October 26th.

Sunday Drive

We went for a sunday drive today, on a mission to get my husband work boots.

It was a perfect sunny autumn day....

we drove past many small farms....

and my favorite one with the sheep!!

I love this rolling hill full of healthy sheep and their horse.

After a while a police car drove by with sirens going and frighted the sheep and it is hard to tell from the picture but they started to run... almost a sheep stampede, I have never seen that!

But this beauty came running toward us,

I wish that I had brought a bag of apples!