Water tower in Federal Heights, Denver

This was sketched from inside the car. It's near a hospital, and apparently this street serves as overflow employee parking, as there were people in scrubs getting in and out of these cars all day. When I arrived, the sun was out and casting the nice shadow on the base of the tower you see here. As I began laying in values with the markers, it clouded up and rained, and just about all of the shadows disappeared. Fortunately I had penciled in the location of the shadow early on, or this would be a pretty dull sketch.
Wooden derrick in the rotunda of the Western History and Genealogy dept, Denver Public Library

This space is one floor above the reference area I sketched on Sunday of this week. I spent almost an hour laying out the derrick in pencil, which is probably the longest I've spent on a preliminary pencil sketch in a long time. But once that was done, the rest of the sketch seemed to fly by.
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