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.

gathered shop in Front Royal VA [My "Meet A Maker" Day!]

I spent a cold, blustery Saturday at gathered, a shop in downtown Front Royal Virginia showcasing art and craft of over 50 regional artisans.  Owner Cadyn Speziale featured my work and an interview about my process and aspirations this month:
http://gatheredshop.com/the-artists.html.
I really enjoyed Cadyn's questions. Component to the "Featured Artist" post is an in-store "Meet A Maker" event. So, I got to hang out with Cadyn and meet some really wonderful Front Royal residents. Made my Day.

For the occasion, I brought a new Virginia State Map Print featuring Front Royal icons, the Main Street clock and gazebo, with the city marked with a small red heart on the topographical map-drawing of the state - available as Prints and Postcards. Also, some sweet Custom LOVE SHACK Prints  with couple's initials fresh for Valentine's Day. As well as Front Royal E. Main Street Prints and Postcards...and other VIRGINIA Prints and Postcards, including Virginia Tech and University of Virginia. You can find them at gathered!
http://gatheredshop.com/the-shop.html

This is Cadyn Speziale. This is the face of an inspired, optimistic, hard-working, genuine, exceedingly kind and multi-talented artist entrepreneur, and friend. This is the face of gathered.

You'll first be impressed by gathered's fantastic signboard on East Main Street in Front Royal, just east of the Courthouse. Hang a right down Church Street. gathered is just off the main street, for now...

You'll find over 50 regional artisans (most from Virginia) represented at gathered. Here are block-printed pillows by Horse and Hare, sculptural branch candles by The Painted Branch, and hand-crafted - printed leather wallets and notebooks by In Blue.
Visit gathered in Front Royal or shop online: http://gatheredshop.com/the-shop.html

State journals by Prints and Printcess. House & Twister metal sculpture by John Urbanski IV.
Visit gathered in Front Royal or shop online: http://gatheredshop.com/the-shop.html

Ceramics by Red Hand Gallery.
Visit gathered in Front Royal or shop online: http://gatheredshop.com/the-shop.html

Small Prints and Notecards by Horse and Hare, Print Stitch & Paste, Golden Haze and Turn-of-the-Centuries. On the wall, Angel Roost's Quilts!
Visit gathered in Front Royal or shop online: http://gatheredshop.com/the-shop.html

Illustrative note cards and small Prints by Zoe Tilley Poster.
Visit gathered in Front Royal or shop online: http://gatheredshop.com/the-shop.html

Be sure to linger over the glass display case where you'll find Cadyn's own exquisite beaded cuff bracelets and collar necklaces. I've never seen anything so brilliant and love to see how Cadyn designs and stitches tiny glass beads together to create wearable fine art. The gems of gathered!
Visit gathered in Front Royal or shop online: http://gatheredshop.com/the-shop.html

The gems of gathered, Cadyn's beaded cuffs and collars!
Visit gathered in Front Royal or shop online: http://gatheredshop.com/the-shop.html

The gems of gathered, Cadyn's beaded cuffs and necklaces!
Visit gathered in Front Royal or shop online: http://gatheredshop.com/the-shop.html

Good night, gathered. The new window display features a Front Royal Streetscape Print and University of Virginia Print by Turn-of-the-Centuries, as well as Vintage Motorbike postcards. Also, sculptural branch candles by The Painted Branch and hand-felted finger puppets by Petit Felts.
Visit gathered in Front Royal. You're in for a treat.
 or shop online: http://gatheredshop.com/the-shop.html

The MIDWESTERN STATES: USA Map-Drawings

I've just finished the Midwest States Map-Drawings! 
https://www.etsy.com/shop/turnofthecenturies?section_id=14268693

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 

NORTH DAKOTA (Bismarck hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175427540/north-dakota-state-map-postcard
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175437387/north-dakota-map-8x10-print

SOUTH DAKOTA (Sioux Falls hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175428788/south-dakota-map-8x10-print

NEBRASKA (Lincoln hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175332462/nebraska-map-8x10-print

KANSAS (Salina hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175078626/kansas-map-8x10-print

MISSOURI (St. Louis hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/167590391/missouri-map-8x10-print

IOWA (Des Moines & Iowa City hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/174833122/iowa-map-postcard
https://www.etsy.com/listing/174842599/iowa-map-8x10-print

IOWA (Des Moines hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175089662/iowa-map-american-gothic-8x10-print

IOWA (Des Moines hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175089662/iowa-map-american-gothic-8x10-print

MINNESOTA (Minneapolis hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175237348/minnesota-map-8x10-print

WISCONSIN (Appleton & Madison hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/167529475/wisconsin-map-8x10-print

ILLINOIS (Springfield hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175879040/illinois-state-map-postcard
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175878948/illinois-map-8x10-print

INDIANA (Indianapolis hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175890937/indiana-map-8x10-print

OHIO (Cincinnatti & Columbus hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175988160/ohio-map-8x10-print

I loved drawing the Midwest as I thought of my own origins and my family's German and Swiss farmers. Come to the Heartland! 

Find All of the MIDWEST Print and Postcards HERE.

The SOUTHERN STATES: USA Map-Drawings

I've just finished the Southern States Map-Drawings! Celebrating MLK Day. I imagine every one of these states saw Dr. King in his dynamic lifetime and yet feels his indomitable spirit of peace.https://www.etsy.com/shop/turnofthecenturies?section_id=14268693

Here they are - sort of geographically hung on my wall. Now, I waffled over Texas and Oklahoma. Is OK. in the Midwest? Is TX. its own region? Some (from Carolina) even say Virginia's not The South...  It's an exclusive club and membership and debatable. Well, here's The South as it settled out for me.
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 

LOUISIANA! (New Orleans hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/163836450/louisiana-map-8x10-print

MISSISSIPPI! (Natchez & Starkville hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176118504/mississippi-map-8x10-print

ALABAMA! (Birmingham hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176121358/alabama-map-8x10-print

FLORIDA! (Miami & Jacksonville marked)
 https://www.etsy.com/listing/167598706/florida-state-map-postcard
https://www.etsy.com/listing/167609707/florida-map-8x10-print  

GEORGIA! (Atlanta & Savannah marked)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/163903917/georgia-map-8x10-print

SOUTH CAROLINA! (Charleston hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/163930899/south-carolina-map-8x10-print

NORTH CAROLINA! (Asheville hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175002215/north-carolina-map-8x10-print

VIRGINIA! (Charlottesville hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/163923727/virginia-map-8x10-print

WEST VIRGINIA! (Charleston & Morgantown marked)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175992494/west-virginia-state-map-postcard
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175998867/west-virginia-map-8x10-print

KENTUCKY! (Lexington hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176028154/kentucky-map-8x10-print

TENNESSEE! (Memphis & Knoxville marked)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176042479/tennessee-state-map-postcard
https://www.etsy.com/listing/176027294/tennessee-map-8x10-print

ARKANSAS! (Little Rock hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175773895/arkansas-map-8x10-print

OKLAHOMA! (Tulsa hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175791815/oklahoma-map-8x10-print

TEXAS! (Austin hearted)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175733667/texas-map-8x10-print

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!