Baker Library in the fall, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA

Another view of the Ansonia Building in NYC

Baker Library - Harvard Business School

Baker Library - this is the main Library at Harvard Business School, an incredible source of great knowledge in this amazing campus.

In front of it lays a long yard, with a green lawn where rabbits and squirrels play during Spring, and that is covered in white in the snowy Winter.

Peet's Coffee & Tea - Harvard Square

This is Peet's Cafe, in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA, a local coffee shop with a homey feeling, serving premium quality coffee and tea, and with those cookies that make us feel so comfortable in the snowy days.
With large windows with chairs looking to the outside, this coffee house invites us to stay for a morning or an afternoon, an hour or just some minutes, and enjoy its good ambiance.

Dean's House - Harvard Business School

Carmel, CA

The Spanish Mission in Carmel is another place that surprises each and every vistor. It keeps the history of the old times, when the first spanish people arrived to the West Coast, to explore this amazing part of the world.

It can still be seen the old building that was the church and the houses surrounding them. A very colonial spot!

Boston

Boston is an amazing city to visit. Although it looks like to be a "only student life" city, it actualy has lots of history and an incredible museum of Fine Arts.

It's definitly worth a visit with time to spend there :)

Haunted House - Gordon St, Savannah, GA - USA

Mercer House - Savannah, GA - USA

This is the Mercer House, the one that appears in the movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
It is an amazing typical house from Savannah, with beautiful ceilings and big rooms, ball rooms, living rooms, and it has a pipe organ inside, within a wall.

Not only it is the house that appears on the movie, but it is the original house where the story actually took place (the movie tells the story of Jim Williams, a very wealthy man that lives in this sumptuous house and where... well, I can't tell the movie story here, just watch the movie!).

A place that everyone must stop by in Savannah.

Chicago Arst Institute

Where I found the most incredible collection of impresionist old masters' paintings, picures allowed (!!!!).

Ansonia Building, NYC

The mythical Ansonia Building

Lincoln Center, NYC

Progression - NY view

Step1: rough sketch

Step 2: defined lines, drawing complete

Step 3: Color

Progression - Flamingo

Progression in NY

Continuing the exercise described before...

St. Patrick's Cathedral, NY

Rockefeller Center

Progression - the purpose

Last Month the Urban Sketchers blog from Portugal sent out a Challenge which was to show the progression of each drawing, usually in two steps: before and after adding color.

I actually usually do them in three steps:
1 - very rough drawing, almost only a sugestion, because they are made "on the go", without any support and in a hurry going somewhere (with a ink gel pen)
2 - in a table (with firm hand), finish and compose the drawing
3 - color (watercolor)

Here is an example of a building roof-top in NY:

 When the drawing is already "pretty" after step 1, I jump step 2. Here is an example in a Starbucks in Orlando.

218 Liberty Street, Savannah, GA - USA

Polo Match

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

A Polo Match at Rose Hill Plantation, in Bluffton, SC

The watcher.

The polo field and the equestrian center barns.

Gallery Espresso - Coffee House in Savanah, GA - USA

Harvard Bridge, Boston, MS - USA