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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.
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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.
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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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Tulips.
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The Corcovado rain forest, Costa Rica.
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If you'll allow an occasional digital sketch thrown in with the usual watercolor and gouache pieces, this is done in Art Rage and Photoshop. It did begin as an on location gouache sketch but I ended up messing around with it digitally.
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Brrrrrrrrr.
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Moonscape
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Acrylic on illustration board.
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Flaming Gorge Lake, Utah.
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Quicksketch at Lake Tahoe, CA.
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Painted for "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron".
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These are ink roughs from my sketchbook. Friends and family tend to respond to my color sketches more favorably but I get so obsessed with value composition that these are often my favorites.

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Something a little different this week, this is a panorama (with close-ups) painted for the animated film "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron". Acrylic on Crescent 100 board, 2001.
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Waterfall, Costa Rica.
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Quickie from a trip to France.
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Sierra Foothill path.
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O'Melveny Park, Grenada Hills, Ca.
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Fallen log.
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Nevada.
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Old man Keeler's homestead.
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Neighborhood at sunset.
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Sweitzer Creek in Angeles National Forest, Ca.
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Somewhere in central Utah.
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Pond at Descanso Gardens, Ca. ink and waterbrush.
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A page from my sketchbook.
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More from Bee Canyon.
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Bee Canyon Park, Grenada Hills, Ca.
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