"Into Sheepskin Hollow" - illustration by Nate Dray

 "Into Sheepskin Hollow"

13 x 16 inches, acrylic on paper on cardboard

Sheepskin Hollow is along the Great Trail where it crosses Little Beaver Creek on the Pennsylvania-Ohio line. There used to be a tannery in the vicinity and there are little rapids and waterfalls along the way as the little creek flows down to join the North Fork. 

This from a bright windy day in Fall after some rain. The picture I did "North Fork by Pancake" is just up the way there...

I wanted to call this "Sheepskin Hollow Beck" but I thought it would be confusing... 

 

Nate Dray Paints, Illustration and description of an Ohio canal pond, "An Old Frozen Level"

"An Old Frozen Level"

Colored drawing on paper on cardboard.

Also called a canal pond or in Great Britain, a reach.

 

Nate Dray, Artist

 

more watercolors from Nate Dray...

 "Up Unity to the Rabbit & Poultry"

 

"Up Unity to the Rabbit & Poultry" by Nate Dray

watercolor on paper, 16 x 22 inches

 

Appalachian Woods & Trails, small ink and watercolor illustrations by artist Nate Dray

 Some playing card size ink & watercolor drawings of nearby woods and trails. 

Nate Dray watercolor painting "North Fork by Pancake"

 

North Fork by Pancake

by Nate Dray

watercolor on paper, 17 x 22 inches

A view of the North Fork of the Little Beaver Creek below the crossroads at Pancake.  

Nate Dray watercolor painting: "Over Lincoln Highway"

 

"Over Lincoln Highway"

by Nate Dray

watercolor on paper, 17 x 22 inches

 

"Bad House" watercolor by Nate Dray

"Bad House"

16" x 12"

watercolor on paper

"Under Hellbender Bluff" - a watercolor by Nate Dray

"Under Hellbender Bluff"
12 x 16 inches, Watercolor

Hellbender Bluff is a rocky outcropping along the Little Beaver Creek in Columbiana County Ohio known for hosting one of the largest extant breeding populations of the endangered Hellbender Salamander. They are really big, up to 2 feet, and need clean fast-flowing oxygenated water with lots of rocks to hide under. Considered a reliable indicator species, Hellbenders can't survive in polluted waters.

“Green Wave Break over Mike Lusk’s Lock (no, his kid isn’t buried in it)”

“Green Wave Break over Mike Lusk’s Lock (no, his kid isn’t buried in it)”

Lusk was an English engineer who built beautiful locks. Contracted for a couple in the 1830s for the Sandy and Beaver Canal. There are sad stories about how this work in the howling Ohio wilderness adversely affected his life and family.

Watercolors by Nate Dray

Some watercolors by Nate Dray (me)...

"In the Master Bedroom" and "Stone by Tressel" (below)