Homes & Special Places

I can create an original pen and ink drawing from a photo of your home,
favorite vacation spot, bar or restaurant, business,
or another favorite location.

You can also choose a phrase to be added to your drawing, if you wish.
Here are some suggestions ~ which one makes you think of your special place?

These are drawings done from photos;
most were commissioned by individuals
as gifts for friends and family.

Photo	Drawing	Details
		Bert's Bar, in Matlacha, Florida. If you'd like to see the real Bert's, here's their website.
		The Florabama is a bar that sits on the state line between Florida and Alabama, near Gulf Shores, AL. If you'd like to learn more about the Florabama, click here.
		The Nav-A-Gator is a local bar in Lake Suzy, Florida, near Port Charlotte, and the subject of the song "Nav-A-Gator Afternoon" by musician Jim Morris. Click the links to learn more!
		Louie's Backyard in Key West is a favorite restaurant for many island visitors. This was commissioned by a regular visitor who loves the view from the deck at night.
		The Troubadour in West Hollywood was a gathering place for many people in the Southern California singer/songwriter music scene of the mid-60s to the mid-70s. Among the frequent patrons on those days were Jackson Browne, Don Henley and Glenn Frey and other members of the Eagles, Warren Zevon, Linda Rondstadt, J.D. Souther, James Taylor, Tom Waits, and Jim Morrison and the Doors.
		Another location important to the people in the Southern California singer/songwriter music scene of the mid-60s to the mid-70s, now razed and replaced with a shopping center. Janis Joplin died here; frequent residents included Warren Zevon, Van Morrison, Tom Waits, and Jim Morrison. The Tropicana was part of the inspiration for Warren Zevon's song "Desperadoes Under the Eaves" ~ he called it The Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel.

Suggestions for Captions
If you have requested a drawing of your home,
choose a caption to be added to the piece.

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.	Phillip Moffitt
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home	Pam Brown
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.	George Carlin
Spread love everywhere you go, first in your own house.	Mother Teresa
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.	Sam Walter Foss
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.	Old folk saying
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.	Charles Dickens
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.	Robert Montgomery
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.	Robert Southey
Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home.	Sarah J. Hale
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.	J.R.R. Tolkien
Our house is a very, very, very fine house	Crosby, Stills, and Nash
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.	Thomas Moore
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.	Herman Melville
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.	Irish Proverb
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.	Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
This is the true nature of home ~ it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.	John Ruskin
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.	H. L. Mencken
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.	Thomas Jefferson
A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.	George Moore