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Redwood City street corner

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Jenny
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Sketches at the Natural History Museum.
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Neighborhood flowers. I've included some pictures to show the painting process. This is watercolor on hot press illustration board.

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Acrylic on cold pressed crescent board.
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Rotunda, charcoal sketch.
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Off the California Central Coast. A small gouache sketch in a heavyweight craft paper sketchbook.
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Switzer Creek. Watercolor on arches cold pressed paper.
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Plaster cast drawings. Compressed charcoal on Rives drawing paper.
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Felicia

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Cow. Compressed charcoal on rives drawing paper.
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Carmel point, central coast California.
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Iguana
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View from my office window at night. That's the glow of downtown LA over the hill.
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Laura, Gouache sketch.
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We had a great time at the landscape sketching workshop last week in Eaton Canyon. Here are some sketches from that and previous trips to the canyon.
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This bird flew down and all but posed for me while I was landscape sketching out in Hawaii. I like this one better than the landscape I had been working on.
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More views out the office window. I did 50 or 60 of these over the course of a year.
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View from my office window, different times, different days.
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More reference for the drawing class. These are done with B and 3B Ritmo charcoal pencils and Carbothello white pencils on Strathmore charcoal paper.
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Compressed charcoal and white nupastel on strathmore of Clark Allen. A reference for this weeks drawing class.
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Sci fi gouache quicksketch
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Golden barrel cactus at Hunnington Gardens, LA.
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The strangler fig
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Watercolor sketch of Clark Allen
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Butterfly

More drawings of Clark Allen

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A quick sketch of Trace Devai.

Clark Allen, charcoal demonstration. (click to enlarge)

These demonstration posts are here as an online resource for my drawing class. For more information go to www.laafigart.com.