Randolph Pitchford
randolf50.bsky.social
Randolph Pitchford
@randolf50.bsky.social
Respected Political Analyst, Retired Minister Universal Life Church, Award-winning Photojournalist
Tonight's effort is Point Lookout Maryland of the War of 1812 and Civil War fame
Only visited it once
#watercolor #landscape #ChesapeakeBay #Art
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Nothing could beat the gas station Fried Chicken in East Tennessee back in the 1950s.
No finer eating anywhere.
#watercolor #landscape #UrbanSketching #FriedChicken
#Art
#Tennessee
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Memories of the North Fork of the Holston River in Tennessee version 2
#watercolor #Tennessee #Holston River #landscape #art
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Memories of the Holston River in Tennessee
#watercolor #Tennessee #Holston River #landscape #art
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Memories of rural roads through East Tennessee to Knoxville before the interstate came through.
Starting with Turkey Creek, a backwater of the Tennessee River impoundment in Knox County
#watercolor #Knoxville #TennesseeRiver #art #landscape #Urbansketching
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
memories of the now abandoned and decaying Civil War era Mount Chapel Church and cemetery in Jonesboro near Swoopes in Augusta County Virginia.
If it still stands, only reachable by a dirt road and a 4x4
#watercolor #Jonesboro #art #landscape #Urbansketching
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Chickahominy Swamp and the Beaverdam Depot in Hanover County Virginia
#watercolor #Beaverdam #Hanover #art #landscape #UrbanSketching
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Willis Wharf, eastern Shore of Virginia
#watercolor #Sketching #Urban
#art
November 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Memories of Haunted Houses of East Tennessee
The Tarr Mansion in Talbott Tennessee just down the road from my Grandpa's tobacco farm
#watercolor #Urbansketching #art #landscape
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Caruthers House, Lebanon Tennessee
#watercolor #Urbansketching #Lebanon #Tennessee #landscape
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Memories of trick or treating with cousin Patsy and Christine while visiting relatives in Knoxville Tennessee in the 1950s
#watercolor #UrbanSketching #art #Halloween
October 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The word of Donald stands against the world.
The noblest man that ever lived.
Now in the name of all the gods at once upon what meat does this our Donald feed that he has grown so great.
October 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
All that was left of the massive Civil War crater in Petersburg Virginia around 1963
Much less left today.
# landscape #art #landscape #watercolor
October 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Memories of small towns in rural Virginia
This one is Floyd
#watercolor #Floyd #bluegrass #Urbansketching
October 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Celebrating visits to "Church of the Lord Jesus with signs following," famous for their snake handling worship services and "Big Spy Mountain " overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia
Visited both in another life.
#watercolor #UrbanSketching #Jolo #SnakeHandling #BlueRidgeParkway
October 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Hidden Valley Lake in Southwest Virginia, the Ice House at Monticello and the Davy Crockett Tavern and Museum in Morristown Tennessee. #watercolor #UrbanSketching #art #landscape
October 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Memories of the "Palace of Gold" in Mountville West Virginia and the Light of Truth shine in Buckingham Virginia.
Wonder if they still exist?
#watercolor #pencils #UrbanSketching #landscape
October 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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
October 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Iron Truss Bridges from the 1800s that are still standing in the Commonwealth of Virginia
#watercolor #Urbansketching #landscape #IronTruss
October 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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
October 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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
October 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Grandpa Bishop's farm in East Tennessee.
Around 1957
#watercolor #Japanese #pencils #Urbansketching #landscape
October 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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
October 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"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
October 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM