I don’t know if I have a clear and precise answer to this question. When I was drawing as a hobby the subjects were usually people or animals, copied from a magazine photo, rendered in pencil and occasionally ink. As I recall, it was on family vacations in Cape May that I first began drawing buildings in my sketchbook with a fountain pen. I was attracted to the architecture of the Victorian homes and grand hotels. I became fascinated with simple expressive line drawings, which were often used in commercial illustrations before being replaced by computerized graphics I collected delightful tiny line drawings from the New Yorker magazine that printed throughout their pages. But the single greatest influence came from the British illustrator/travel artist, Paul Hogarth. His drawings and watercolors continue to inspire me some 45 years later. I shamelessly adopted his style and approach to rendering architecture. Fortunately, I allowed enough of myself to come through to establish my own recognizable “style”. This can easily be seen in my early paintings of Wilmington streetscapes and buildings. As an illustrator, Hogarth was a storyteller, and I soon began to think of myself in the same way. I recognized that my paintings were very graphic and did not fit into the category of fine art, and I was very comfortable with that.