Cave Hill Cemetery

On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday we will have drawing sessions at Cave Hill Cemetery (click to go to their website).  The weather forecast is between 85 and 90 on those three days with a 30%-40% chance of rain, but mostly in the afternoons. If it's raining on the mornings of our drawing sessions, come to campus instead.

Cave Hill is located at 701 Baxter Avenue in Louisville. There are a few ways to get there easily. If you're coming from campus, one way is to take 64 east to the 9th Street Exit, follow 9th up to Broadway, make a left, and follow Broadway up to Cave Hill.  Broadway ends at Baxter and when you get to the intersection of Baxter and Broadway, you'll see Cave Hill over toward the right on the other side of the intersection.

Another way from campus (from Google maps)

Take exit 0 for I-64 toward Louisville/New Albany

39 ft

Keep right at the fork to continue toward I-64 E and merge onto I-64 E

Entering Kentucky

6.1 mi

Take exit 4 for 9th St/Roy Wilkins Ave

0.2 mi

Keep left at the fork, follow signs for Market St

246 ft

Turn left at W Market St/US-31W/US-60

Continue to follow W Market St/US-60

1.8 mi

Turn right at Baxter Ave/US-31E

0.1 mi

Turn left to stay on Baxter Ave/US-31E

0.6 mi

Slight left at Cherokee Rd

Destination will be on the left

174 ft

If you're Nate and coming from Madison, follow these directions (from 

Google maps)

	Take the ramp onto I-71 S		34.5 mi
	Merge onto I-65 S		0.3 mi
	Take exit 136-C for Jefferson St		0.2 mi
	Keep right at the fork, follow signs forBrook St and merge onto E Jefferson St		407 ft
	Turn right at S Brook St		486 ft
	Turn right at E Market St/US-31E/US-60		1.0 mi
	Turn right at Baxter Ave/US-31E		0.1 mi
	Turn left to stay on Baxter Ave/US-31E		0.6 mi
	Slight left at Cherokee Rd Destination will be on the left If you're coming from Jeffersonville, use the above directions from "Merge onto I-65 S" and that will get you there. Where will we meet?: Just inside the front entrance off of Baxter Avenue. There is a long stretch of road just inside the gate entering the cemetery, and I will be along that road to give you your paper. What to bring: Your drawing materials, although I would suspect that charcoal and pastels (dry or oil based) will be the preferred choices. I will distribute pastel/charcoal paper. You may want to bring your sketchbooks and your regular drawing pads. It may be cool at 9:00 a.m., but warmer by noon. Wear a layer or two.  Bring a garbage bag to sit on incase the ground is wet. You might also bring a bottle of water. Visit the Cave Hill website and look at the image gallery.  You might also want to go see the cemetery over the weekend just to get a sense of the location and the many beautiful sites. What are we drawing?: Our obvious focus in on landscape, but that doesn't mean that it must be exclusively landscape.  There are many beautiful sculptures, lakes, fountains, monuments, and rolling hills and trees.  I would like to see two finished drawings from the three days session. IF you go to this site and type in the search: How to Draw Landscapes with dry pastels, you can see a video of someone doing just that. It's the second video on the list. And Trista found this video on oil pastels. It's pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PGL8rj3btQ IF the link doesn't work, copy/paste it into your browser. Questions? Comments?