Mundane landscapes

No doubt anyone who has looked at very many of the sketches I've posted over the past month or so has noticed that the subjects are often unremarkable, and sometimes downright homely. Part of the challenge for me is not only to draw whether I feel like it or not, but to draw things that don't necessarily look like they're begging to be captured in a pretty picture. That was the case this morning, sitting in my car in the parking lot of a nondescript professional office and retail strip development half filled with boring late model cars. The ragged grey sky with a few rays of sunlight tearing through breaks in the clouds was what got me interested, but then I got absorbed in the process of seeing and drawing, and my mood influenced the way I interpreted what I was looking at.

parking lot at Olde Hickory Village Plaza, Oregon Pike, Lancaster, PA; 8 1/4 x 11 9/16, 9B graphite and watercolor pencils