Freezing Rain

Last Saturday was one of the few days when the sketch group didn't go out. Most of the group--a varying majority--manage to go even in snow or cold. But the weather was the worst you can imagine, with freezing rain making everything slippery. So far as I know no one ventured out. 

Instead of going outside I stood in my studio window and sketched Druid Hill Creek, what you could see of it. I keep a pocket sketchbook on the windowsill and sketch the view north/downstream a time or two monthly. This little book is about 3.5x5 inches or so, a truly small book, intended for pockets. But I leave it on the windowsill and simply do a watercolor of the view from there every few days. So the book becomes a visual journal of the year and an artwork as a whole, too. 

"Druid Hill Creek, Freezing Rain," wc/ink on paper

This view is about 6 inches wide. The grey skies and freezing rain, superimposed on a recent inch or two of snow, made this one a bit bleak.