Sunset in Death Valley.
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Three Rivers in Sequoia National Park.
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A demo for you this week. This is watercolor and gouache in a heavyweight craft paper sketchbook. The location is Towsley Canyon Creek in the Santa Clarita Valley, northwest of LA.




















The finish is softer with more glazing than I usually do, I tend to preserve the brushwork. But getting the simple masses of color was more important to me in this case.

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From a trip to Utah back in '01
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Brush pen sketches of places visited on my summer vacation.
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Big Tujunga Creek.
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I pulled over onto a side street and did this very quick sketch of the 210 freeway overpass while sitting in my car.
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Sunset in Death Valley.
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The stream. Watercolor with white gouache.
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Late afternoon sketches in Central California.
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Pyramid Lake in Southern California.
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Creekbed in Angeles Crest Forrest. This is as far as I got before it started to rain.
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Moleskine sketch of Towsley Canyon Creek.
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Demo!

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A demo for you this week. This is a canyon in Arches National Park, Utah and was done in watercolor with white gouache.

I don't usually work on black paper but sometimes it's a nice way to frame a very luminous or atmospheric subject.

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San Pedro industrial plant at dusk.
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San Pedro shipping yard.
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Brush pen sketches.
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San Pedro shipping yard.
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Cambodian ruins.
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View from my folks home outside of Coalinga in central California.
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Spring thistle.
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The peach trees in our back yard are in bloom.
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Stone Path.
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Cambria rocks on the Central California Coast.
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Tree grove at the Los Osos State Beach on the California Central Coast.
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Corcovado falls, Costa Rica.
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Naples marina, Long beach CA.
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If you've made the drive from central California to LA, you've probably seen this scene as you approached the Grapevine at dusk.
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A quick one before the rain came down.
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Mausoleum.
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