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Canyons outside of Hurricane Utah.
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Northern California pond. You have to paint quick when it's getting dark.
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Costa Rican waterfall
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Corcovado Rain Forest stream, Costa Rica.
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Santa Clara hills

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Northern California woods.
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From a trip to Costa Rica.
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The flowers have come into bloom here in the Santa Clarita valley.
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Hegben Lake, Montana.

This is from a particularly memorable 2 1/2 week painting trip where I toured the national parks of Utah (previous post), drove through Montana to Glacier National Park and back to California.

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Late afternoon in Zion Canyon, Utah.
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An afternoon of painting at Vasquez Rocks.
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Vasquez Rocks, north of Los Angeles on an overcast evening.
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View from Mulholland drive.

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A quickie from a trip to Lake Arrowhead, Ca. a few summers ago.
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Switzer Creek in Angeles Crest forest. This is gouache on illustration board from back in '99.

I've spent alot of time sketching in this area. It feels completely unlike LA but is only a 20 minute drive from Glendale where I lived for many years.
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Los Gatos Canyon mountains, outside Coalinga Ca.
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From a trip to Peru a few years ago.
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I spent this New years at 7,500 feet in Timberlakes, Utah. Beautiful and...COLD!
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The red bridge at Descanso gardens in North Glendale, Los Angeles.
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Swiss Lake.
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Several years ago I had a chance to visit Switzerland. A gorgeous country.

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Around the corner.
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Switzer creek in Angeles Crest Forest, California.
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Bay Cypress. Digital.

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Big Sur trees on the central California coast.
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Fall in Southern Utah.
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Corcovado rain forrest, Costa Rica.
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Bridalveil Falls Creek, Utah
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Pinacles National Monument, central California.
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Warthan Canyon at dusk, central California.
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Crystal springs reservoir outside Redwood City CA. Less is more.
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Our class went out sketching in Eaton Canyon, Pasadena last Saturday. This is my demo sketch. Good times.
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Dusk
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Montana de Oro beach on the central coast of California.
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A few more quick sketches from around the new homestead.
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I'm very excited to have recently moved to beautiful Castaic Lake at the northeast end of the LA basin. I hope to have stacks of sketches as the months go by. Here's the first.
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Zion National Park mountains.
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Another Utah sketch, somewhere near Bryce canyon. Trying to get the sunset colors before it's too dark.
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One day in Provo Canyon, Utah, 2003.

I set a goal to fill this little notebook in one day, hence the smaller than usual sketches. Didn't quite reach the goal but I did come up with these 12 scenes.
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