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This is a sketchbook page from a visit to the Hunnington Botanical Garden in Pasadena, Ca.
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Los Gatos Creek. Watercolor on Arches cold pressed paper.
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Tobacco tree sprig.
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Santa Barbara Hills.
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Strangler Fig, Costa Rica.
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Buncha roughs this week.
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Joshua Tree National Park in the desert region of Southern California.
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I used to live in North Glendale Ca. Here are a couple of quickies from around the neighborhood.
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Moleskine studies.
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The colors in these rolling California hills at dusk are so hard to get. I did the best I could here by using alot of layering. I've left this one full rez for you to take a closer look if you're so inclined.
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In Bryce National Park, Utah
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Brush pen sketch of a spot visited last summer in the Sequoia Foothills.
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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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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.