This is what they call "adding value"...

CUBA ? I was a spy once I recognize the street.

Well spotted that man. Cuba it is with all the ancient American cars kept running on a wing and a prayer. I've never been there but have a little cache of photos some of which I hope will become the basis of paintings if I live long enough.

I like Hopper too Jack and have copied some of his work in the past. I might post some on here before too long.

I like the one with the red car, Foinavon - I'd put that on my wall.

i did a Hopper copy a few yrs ago too. will try and upload it.
maybe its the same one?

Tall women appear elegant and even if the reality is stretched the image is still pleasing to the eye.
My wife bought a few figurines of overly tall women in period costumes and some of them are on the mantlepiece.

Here is my copy of "Girl at a sewing machine" by Edward Hopper. Done with gouache on paper.

Hope you will get your pastels out again and have a go M-D, it's great fun. Just doing something simple like a daisy flower gives a sense of achievement. Five minute sketches without a care whether good or bad will bring you on leaps and bounds.Think about that old lady painting at 90, it has been a lifetime's joy for her and I understand why.

Although I didn't care for the woman I love that picture of Diana, Zorro. You have captured the doe-eyed look and the smile through gritted teeth perfectly.
Also Compartment C car is in my Hopper book and instantly recognisable. I have a cropped extract of a famous one of his and I will post it once approved. I'll leave you to guess the original.

This was a quick watercolour sketch I did a few years ago so don't expect too much. It's an extract from a larger work by Edward Hopper. Can you guess which work?

Chop Suey is correct I think the window is the giveaway. I would like to paint the whole thing one day on a large sheet, perhaps half Imperial and hang it in my room. It is on of his best in my opinion.
I have another Hopper copy done in pastel which I'll post probably tomorrow.

not many of these left in my old files.

that guy looks small? the kerb must be huge to dangle the legs.
the past looks miserable. I need a bar of choc to cheer me up.

Sunday
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http://www.edwardhopper.net/sunday.jsp

I agree with you Zorro. He is small in the original too and I wish I had made him larger. I think the height of the wooden apron in front of the shops is more than what we would assume to be a single step up and is reminiscent of the old wild west towns before tarmac roads. I could rub him out in a second and draw him in again but I'm a bit averse to "improving" old work and tend to let the warts remain as a true record of what I did back then.
Sundays did tend to be boring affairs back then, what we have today was hard won against church and union opposition.
Thanks for the comments and the link M-D. I don't know the book and will look it up. Landscapes are better for starters as there's not much need for detail or complete accuracy apart from perspective.

Thanks, Foinavon

Will check out the videos!

matt monroe ?

Drawing flowers, as mentioned earlier, can be relatively easy and rewarding. Here I made a quick pencil sketch in my A5 book of a clematis coming into flower. Some time later I turned it into a larger watercolour painting on A3 paper.

took five minutes