Keswick Avenue Portrait

I like drawing from photos. It allows me to make a sketch anywhere and anytime. And while my pen moves around the paper I revisit the scene in memory, feeling the sun, the rain, the humidity, hearing the traffic sounds and smelling lilacs or wood smoke or diesel…

Here is a photo of the train overpass on Keswick Avenue in Glenside, PA, in September 2019. I don’t remember exactly why I was here, because it is a stretch of sidewalk I travel very often. I think I was in the neighborhood to get my hair cut or to go to the dentist.

Here’s the photo:

Glenside 3 4-10-191

Here is the sketch I made in my notebook some days later:

Car on Keswick Avenue 9-191

This picture says “home” to me.

2 thoughts on “Keswick Avenue Portrait”

  1. tierneycreates

    Okay so even when you write about your artistic muses it reads like poetry! I like this part: “And while my pen moves around the paper I revisit the scene in memory, feeling the sun, the rain, the humidity, hearing the traffic sounds and smelling lilacs or wood smoke or diesel…”.
    Lovely drawing of course.

    1. Claudia McGill Post author

      Thank you. It seems so much art advice is to draw from life, which is good, but the photos really bring back memories for me, which is part of what is so important about art for me – it creates a reality from reality, if you know what I mean. Thank you!

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