
My favorite tools: a 5B pencil, Neocolor II water soluble wax pastels, and watercolors. I value the time and physicality to sit and look at something for a good long time, while my hand serves as scribe.
In 2010, I stumbled across the Urban Sketcher Flickr and Urban Sketcher Blog. Urban Sketchers gave me a new assignment and vitality. I launched into drawing landscapes of my Cedar Falls, Iowa neighborhood. Each drawing made me see and appreciate my longtime home more. I posted them on Flickr and Facebook and received invaluable encouragement from the Urban Sketcher community. In 2013, this flurry of work became my one-person exhibit, Drawing the Town, at the Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls.
Cedar Falls—a small, Midwestern US city—is as worthy a subject as any of the great metropolises or bucket-list worthy destinations I’ve been to. When the weather is nice, about half the year, I draw outside. Otherwise, I draw inside, looking out. This drawing—Windowsill Hickory Nuts, Winter Outside—is looking from my kitchen window on a February day. As a Correspondent, I’m thrilled to give you a window on my world. I look forward to your response.
- Marcia's sketches on Flickr.