Ted Clemens Fine Art

Sachse, TX
ph: 972-414-0497

SKETCHES AND IMPRESSIONS 2


These pages and the spread below were done during the Outdoor Painters Society plein air week in the Texas Hill country. The pen and inks at left are scenes at the Sauer Beckmann Farmstead, a living history farm at LBJ Ranch State Park. It depicts early 20th century country living.
The sketches on the next spread are at the historic German settlements of Fredericksburg and Comfort. While in Fredericksburg, Becky and I are always sure to pick up a bottle of peach wine and enjoy some impromptu guitar picking at the Hill Country Music Store.

 


 

Marker and colored pencil concept.

A couple of recent note and gift cards (Click to enlarge). 5.5" x 4" Prismacolor on paper.
 

 

This train commuter had a Wyeth quality about him, with his dark hooded jacket on the cool breezy evening. Of course, Wyeth has been on my mind since hearing about his recent passing. I consider him one of this country's greatest artists.

Mostly fellow travelers on my usual commute. The Model T sits over the entrance inside a building at the AT&T plaza in Dallas. The things you can notice sipping coffee in a Starbucks.

A November Saturday at Boy Scout Camp Cherokee in Athens, TX featured frontier soldiers, vintage baseball players, Old West towns folk and this mountainman. A living history event put on for the sake of older Cub Scouts - or Webelos, I played a Yankee chronicler producing reference sketches for newspaper illustrations and studio works.

 


 

 

 

 

This is a continuation of pages from my sketchbook and miscellaneous small works from life.

 

 

 

 

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Sachse, TX
ph: 972-414-0497