In this post are a few miscellaneous sketches from my five days in the Old Pueblo. Kind of like the random aircraft at the Pima Air & Space Museum that don’t fit neatly into the category of fighter, bomber, cargo, or reconnaissance aircraft.

The first sketch was a self portrait from the front veranda facing out to Scott Street. This was a great place to sit in the late afternoon to read, write, sketch, and people watch. On one afternoon a rain storm passed through and it was a great vantage point to hear the sounds of rain drumming on drainpipes.

Another Tucson site I wanted to add to my sketchbook was the Diamondback Bridge, the pedestrian entryway to downtown.

The fenced bridge is designed to look like a long diamondback rattlesnake with a head towards the downtown end and a rattle on the other end. I sketched the rattle.

What do you do when you arrive early to the airport for your return flight home and you find out that your flight has been delayed by and hour and a half? Sketch of course!

I often sketch looking directly head on to planes at the gate. I don’t often get a change to sketch a side view.

This is a United Express jet, an Embraer 175, a common regional aircraft built by the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer. I could certainly understand why such a regional jet was built in Brazil, because you really can’t get around South America’s largest country without flying.