Back to Central California for a sketch of Los Gatos Canyon.

You get remarkable patterns of light and shadow at sunset in the Central California hills.

 

Quicksketch demo's from my gouache sketching class.

View from the home where I grew up in Central Ca.

Panorama for Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron

This last one is the color key sketch. The full painting was about 10" x 60", painted in
acrylics (2001).

Ink studies of George Inness paintings.

View from my house.

Painted for Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron.

The model didn't show up so I went out back and did a sketch of the alley.

San Joaquin hills, California at Sunset.

Sunset in Priest Valley California.

Griffith Park Tree.

A quickie from outside of Redwood City, CA.

San Joaquin Hills, Central California.

                     Local tree.

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Sketching in Placerita Canyon, Ca.

The Southern California Apple Valley has no apples that I'm aware of, it's fairly arid but still filled with rich colors.

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Priest Valley at Sunset, Central California.

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These are studies of the work of Edgar Payne that I did many years ago. I've done a great many of these types of studies over the years and am a much better artist for it. They are about 3"x4" and done in acrylics on crescent cold press illustration board.

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Los Gatos canyon, CA.

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Sage and amber grass with backlight in Central California.

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This is a demo I did for the watercolor class at the Laguna College of Art and Design.

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Cedar Creek Falls, Oregon.

From a trip to Italy back in the early nineties.

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I went through the archives looking for anything seasonal but there are no white Christmases where I live. This sketch of a snow drifted bridge in Idaho was the best I could come up with.

Happy Holidays!

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Tahoe woods, Ca. Water soluble ink in my sketchbook.

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Local blooms, watercolor on arches paper.

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Smokey Bear Creek.

 





























Cedar Creek Oregon

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I promise to get back to good ol' gouache next week, in the mean time maybe this digital demo will interest you.

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Angeles Creek, digital.

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Coalinga hillside.

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Watercolor in Death Valley.

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A demo page I did for my landscape sketching class last spring, Placerita Canyon, CA.
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Desert scape, digital.
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