Monument, Mount Rushmore, by Elaine (jaguarish)

Here is one place I have always regretted not seeing before I moved away from the U.S., Mount Rushmore.  The drawing is based on a photo I picked from Wikipedia; the photographer placed his photo in Creative Commons. I did the drawing with a Pilot Croquis -- I've replaced the "B" lead with a "6B" instead and was keen to try it out.  A bit difficult to be precise enough to be accurate with the thick shape, but I like the way it feels and I think it will be great to use for life drawing.

Monuments, Light House, by Sirkka Jalava

Hello again everybody! The time flies, it is a long time I not have been here. I have visited and looked at your wonderful artworks now and then, but have not had time or more energie to paint anything suitable here. No the theme is monuments and that is interesting. We in Finland have the Independence Day to day and we remember all who have been loost in the many wars our land has got to go through. We have monuments in every village that reminds us of our passed time. But I have no photos of them now. In stead of that I think on other monuments, the many lighthouses around the land. They are so beautiful, bastant reminding of old times seafaring. They were placed on small, tiny islands, almost only rocks coming up from the sea. In old times there lived people watching that everything functioned. Whole families could live on the light house islands.  Now lighthouses do not have people permanent there, they are automaticly functioned. And they are popular tourist objects. People can take a regular boat to the island out in the sea, spend a day there, even stay over nigth.

This light house is special therefore, that the border of two states Finland and Sweden goes over the island, one part of island  belongs to Sweden one part to Finland. I will remember, that the lighthouses stay on the finnish ground. It takes one hour to get to the island with a fast boat from our island. The sea is surrounding the island, you sea only water, water and probably a boat far away. You can imagine how it was in stormy weather, and winter. and when the water was high it could come in through the walls. Only seals live and visit the rocks today.

Monument, Woolacombe, Ann Hyde

This monument commemorates the American troops that were stationed in Woolacombe during WW2, who trained for the D-Day landings.

Pen and watercolour

Monuments, Lynn Cohen

We wanted to visit Stonehenge on our most recent travels in the UK. But when we were unable to rent a car after traveling by train then Ferry from Caen, France, we had to change our plans. This quick drawing remembering when I did visit there in 1963 will have to do.

It could have also qualified for a ten minute drawing from our previous challenge. 

Our consolation was that we got to spend extra time visiting Ann Hyde and her family in Devon, County, for which we will be forever grateful. 

Stonehenge, located in Wiltshire, England is a prehistoric monument constructed in 2600 BC.