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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 20h

The Famous 800 Year Old Yew Tree in Fairy Stone State Park Virginia.
A gathering place for root workers for over 200 years
#watercolor #Urbansketching #landscape #FairyStones #Art

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 1d

Iron Truss Bridges from the 1800s that are still standing in the Commonwealth of Virginia
#watercolor #Urbansketching #landscape #IronTruss

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 3d

Memories of Zion's Crossroads in Virginia before the Interstate came through
And a couple of memories from a trip to Paducah Kentucky, around 1986 or thereabouts.
#watercolor #pencil #UrbanSketching #landscape #art

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 5d

My days of road tripping are over so I have to enjoy the Fall colors via my memories.
A tour across Virginia and East Tennessee with a visit to Grandpa Bishop's tobacco farm in Hamblen Country Tennessee c1957
#watercolor #pencils #landscape #UrbanSketching #Art

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 7d

Grandpa Bishop's farm in East Tennessee.
Around 1957
#watercolor #Japanese #pencils #Urbansketching #landscape

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 10d

Continue to go nautical with my experiments with cheap pulp paper and #Japanese #watercolors.
The Susan Constant, Godspeed and little Discovery, #Jamestown Virginia 1607-1957
#pencils #MarjneArt #UrbanSketching

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 13d

"in 1493 Columbus sailed the Deep Blue Sea"
My interpretation using #Japanese #watercolors, pen and Dr PH Martin's Bleed Proof White on cheap pulp paper (two versions)
#pencils #fountainpen #Marineart #UrbanSketching

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 14d

Memories of Wachapreague, "The Flounder Capital of the World", the Eastern Shore of Virginia
Kuretake Gansai Tambi Japanese watercolors on pulp paper. #watercolor #IslandHouse #MarineArt #EasternShore #UrbanSketching

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 15d

Ruins of the Fort at Jamestown Virginia, with the replica of the little ship "Discovery" anchored in the swamp in the background 1957
#watercolor #Jamestown #pencils #MarineArt

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 16d

The abandoned lighthouse in Exmore on the eastern Shore of Virginia (no longer in existence)
#watercolor #pencils #urbanSketching #Japanese #MarineArt

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 19d

Sailor's Creek Battlefield Park, Rice Virginia
3 versions of the Old Mill
#watercolor. #CivilWar #Urbansketching #Virginia #landscape #pencils #art

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · 29d

Night comes early in the Shenandoah Valley Virginia in the Fall
#watercolor #pencils #landscape #rural #Urbansketching

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Sep 20

Fall comes to the Blue ridge mountains of Virginia
#watercolor #pencils #Urbansketching #landscape #art

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Sep 18

Memories of the hot springs at Bath County Virginia
#watercolor #UrbanSketching #art

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Sep 12

Fall comes to the Shenandoah valley of Virginia
#watercolor #Urbansketching #pencils #landscapes #art #Shenandoahvalley

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Sep 11

Past memories of Fall in the Blue Ridge via paint and paper
#watercolor #Urbansketching #pencil #landscape #BlueRidgeParkway

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Harvest Moon and the Pumpkin Patch (also called The Corn Moon by the first Americans)
#watercolor #pencils #UrbanSketching #landscapes
#Art

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Sep 1

Memories of Wild Bear Creek near Gatlinburg Tennessee.
Great trout stream in season Gatlinburg became a major tourist destination #watercolor #pencils #Gatlinburg #UrbanSketching #landscape #Trout

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Aug 29

Pig 'n' Tater's Eats off route 29 in Nelson County Virginia.
Unique in that it not only served up excellent barbecue, country fried steak and steamed Mountain oysters but did a good business in ammo and fireworks and Civil War and Indian artifacts
#watercolor #pencils #UrbanSketching #barbecue

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Aug 28

Fond memories of Fall excursions to Red Apple Orchard in Wingina Virginia
Now abandoned but once home of the sweetest peaches in the Commonwealth of Virginia #watercolor #pencils #UrbanSketching #TyeRiver #NelsonCpunty #ChilesOrchard

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Aug 26

My interpretation of an oyster shucking house in White Stone Virginia
One of many that used to dot the Northern Neck and provide employment for the indigenous people of their region #watercolor #pencils #urbanSketching #NorthernNeck
#MarineArt
#oysters

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Aug 24

The Old Salt House at Oregon Inlet North Carolina.
Built in 1832, it was where the commercial fisherman working the Outer Banks of North Carolina would bring their catch to be salted down in the days before refrigeration
#watercolor
#Urbansketching #pencils #Marineart
#landscape

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Aug 23

Channeling the famous "Climax Beverage" sign that once dominated Belle Isle overlooking the Lee bridge and the abandoned power plant on the James River in Richmond Virginia back in the '50s and the 60s
Considerable poetic license of course
#watercolor #pencils #UrbanSketching #Landscape

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Aug 22

Channeling
Grantland Rice, 1924

"Outlined against a blue, gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again"
#watercolor #pencils #landscape #UrbanSketching

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Randolph Pitchford @randolf50.bsky.social · Aug 19

Trout pond and fruit stand at the base of Old Rag Mountain, Virginia, 1986
#watercolor #landscape #OldRqg
#UrbanSketching #pencils

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