Randolph Pitchford
randolf50.bsky.social
Randolph Pitchford
@randolf50.bsky.social
Respected Political Analyst, Retired Minister Universal Life Church, Award-winning Photojournalist
Day 4 of the New Year.
A cartoon based on memories of driving through Crow Virginia q
, a small Hamlet in Allegheny County Virginia back in the 1970s #watercolor #art #landscape #allegheny
January 5, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Another look at the Cumberland plateau of East Tennessee.
#watercolor #art #landscape #cumberland #tennessee
January 4, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Tonight's quick sketch playing with 3m medical tape to see how it reacts with watercolor paper.
Tape didn't work
Quick sketch based on memories of visiting Panther Creek State Park Talbot Tennessee back in the 1960s are there about
#watercolor #art #landscape #tennessee
January 3, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Another view of Panther Creek State Park in East Tennessee from memory back in the last century
#watercolor #art #landscape
January 2, 2026 at 7:46 AM
My first cartoon of the new year
A color study based on memories of the rock croppings encountered when hiking on the Cumberland Plateau when I was young and limber
#watercolor #cumberland #art #landscape #blueridgemountains
January 2, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Finishing off the old year with a couple of versions of memories of Panther Creek State Park in Talbott Tennessee
#watercolor #art #landscape #tennesseee
January 1, 2026 at 6:19 AM
More random color studies based on memories of Panther Creek State Park in East Tennessee
#watercolor #landscape #art #tennessee
December 31, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Another generic East Tennessee landscape exploring different color schemes than I normally use
#watercolor #landscape #art #tennessee
December 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Tonight's effort some quickies based on memories of East Tennessee landscapes.
Basically the same painting trying out different color schemes just for the heck of it
#watercolor #urbansketching #landscape #Tennessee #smokymountains
December 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Resurrection Lake, based on stories my elderly relations used to tell about the Pentecostal gathering place just outside of Knoxville Tennessee when they were children during the Great depression
#watercolor #Pentecostals #art #landscape #Urbansketching
December 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Christmas candles and Christmas figs, Knoxville Virginia #watercolor #card #christmas #figs #art #landscape
December 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I ran out of steam with my Christmas card countdown series so the night I just went a little crazy and started throwing paint around
#watercolor #santa #christmasparade #ronoke #art #landscape #deer
December 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Christmas card countdown continues.
Tonight's effort based on memories of visits to the National Elks Home in Bedford Virginia.
#watercolor #christmascard #art #bedford #elks
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Christmas card countdown continues
This one based on memories of Christmas in Tennessee, featuring Santa, Blitzer and Crumpet the Elf
#watercolor #elf #landscape #art #card #christmas #Crumpet
December 21, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A little pre-Christmas card to bring some Joy to the kiddies, suitable for framing.
Santa fattening up his reindeer for the big night next week
#watercolor #santa #reindeer #landscape #urbansketching
December 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Just for grins I thought I would join the Christmas card crowd with my take on Santa #watercolor #santa #art #card
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
No backstory, just some memories of the scenes around Staunton Virginia in the 1960s
#watercolor #art #urbansketching #landscape #staunton #virginia
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM
More bare tree practice, landscape's based on East Tennessee memories
#watercolor #tennessee #art #landscape
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
More practice with leafless trees and generic East Tennessee landscapes
#watercolor #art #landscape #tennessee
December 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A little different approach to bare trees tonight
#watercolor #landscape #art
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Trees without leaves don't turn me on but figured I should practice them anyway
Some random cartoons from the last couple of days
#watercolor #winner #art #landscape
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
My version of one of the Lime Kilns that put Eagle Rock Virginia on the map back in the first half of the last century and before
#watercolor #eaglerock #art #landscape #urbansketching
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Not quite the time of year for memories of the flowering almond trees of Eagle Rock Virginia.
Eagle Rock is also famous for its Lime Kills, built in the 1880s or thereabout #watercolor #art #landscape #urbansketching #EagleRock #Almond trees
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The old Botetourt County jail and Sheriff's Office in Fincastle Virginia
Spent an interesting night there as an observing watching rural justice at work back when the legendary Norman H Sprinkle was sheriff sometime in the last century #watercolor #urbansketching #art #fincastle
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Memories of the Cedars of Lebanon Tennessee.
They grow wild in East Tennessee and provided many a rural Depression Era family a bit of Christmas joy when things were hard and money short
Two versions #watercolor #art #landscape #tennessee #Lebanon
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM