The NORTH ATLANTIC STATES: USA Map-Drawings

I've just finished the "North Atlantic" States Map-Drawings! 
A combination of the Mid-Atlantic and New England, if you will....

Each drawing features the state tree and a quintessential or common small house type found in-state, layered over the state's borders and topography, and highways.  You choose the location of a small red heart or house - where's special to you? Available in 8x10 Prints and Postcards. https://www.etsy.com/shop/turnofthecenturies?section_id=14268693

MAINE (Portland hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/167618115/maine-map-8x10-print

NEW HAMPSHIRE (Manchester hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176866829/new-hampshire-map-8x10-print

VERMONT (Middlebury hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176860636/vermont-map-8x10-print

MASSACHUSETTS (Boston & Cape Cod hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176895385/massachusetts-map-8x10-print

RHODE ISLAND (Providence & Newport hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176863387/rhode-island-map-8x10-print

CONNECTICUT (New Haven, Danbury & Hartford hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176827647/connecticut-map-8x10-print

NEW YORK (Rochester hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175343429/new-york-map-8x10-print

NEW JERSEY (Jersey City hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176886046/new-jersey-map-8x10-print

PENNSYLVANIA (Harrisburg hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176002703/pennsylvania-state-map-postcard
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176001477/pennsylvania-map-8x10-print

DELAWARE (Wilmington hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176860523/delaware-map-8x10-print
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176852418/delaware-state-map-postcard

MARYLAND (Annapolis hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/174987890/maryland-map-8x10-print

I'm reading about the North Atlantic [Warren Boeschenstein's Historic American Towns along the Atlantic Coast] while drawing this series. While I have an open love for the South and the Mid-Atlantic is my home, I have a secret love for the Northeast. It's 'secret' because I've only traveled north of New York once. My girlfriends and I rambled up the coast as far as Acadia. Perhaps it was the tragedy of forgetting to bring my camera on this trip, but my desire to return to these rugged beaches, mom and pop shops and inns, and quiet, cozy towns and farms has been ripening for years now...Hope to visit north again soon - when the winter is over!

Find All of the NORTH ATLANTIC Print and Postcards HERE.

NYR 2014

I love the clean slate and fresh start and longer perspective of the NEW YEAR - and making goals! This year, I plan to make a lot of new drawings of places I love.

CITIES (and States and Countries) TO DRAW in 2014!

I've thought carefully about the places I've loved and want to get to know better, through drawing. Places I have visited and photographed with an eye to make drawings. Drawings emblematic their unique and ubiquitous qualities and evocative of the senses they conjured in me.  
CITIES (and States and Countries) TO DRAW in 2014 Mapped (above) and Listed (below)

CITIES (and States and Countries) TO DRAW in 2014!

Last Bits of Christmas: FREDERICK, Maryland

On a very cold and windy December 31, 2013 -

- Frederick's East 4th Street revealed Christmas dressings still mostly pristine on stately rowhouses.

The colors of Christmas and the colors of historic rowhouses complemented -

Red doors were inadvertently festive, as well as scalloped window shades.

A single red velvet bow askew made a sea green door a holiday portal.

Even a gated narrow passage between buildings which punctuates Frederick's streetscapes comes alive with a Christmas planter.

Celery is a perfect backdrop to delicate piney wreaths - 

- and brass bells watched over by a brass eagle on this blue double door, which must shine at night when those string lights turn on.

On Market Street, the shop windows are shifting from Christmas the the New Year, and we caught the wreaths on the front door of VOLT restaurant just as they were being taken down, at the end of their holiday lives.