Merry Christmas from Land Sketch!

I had to dig around a bit to find a sketch with some snow in it.
You do get some interesting patterns in the way the snow sits on those hillsides; this is in Provo Canyon, Utah.

Angeles Crest Forest

Smokey Bear Valley

Dusk in Descanso Gardens

California Central Coast HWY 1

Sky Meet Sea

I was invited by Krister Axel, an independent musician to do a CD cover in the vein of the loose sketchbook studies here on Land Sketch. The title and theme is "Sky Meet Sea".

Central California Studies

 

Beach House

Utah Storm

Angeles Forest Pool

Pool in Sweitzer Canyon, Angeles Crest Forest, CA, digital.

At the Airport

Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron

Painting for the animated film Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron.

This is the preliminary sketch.

Tonal Studies in Ink

 

Field of Flowers. Painted for "Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron" 2001. Acrylic on Crescent board.

A glimpse of Elizabeth Lake.

Fall in Angeles Crest Forest, digital.

View from my hotel in Death Valley.

Here's a quickie of the Lake Tahoe area on the California/Nevada border.

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I first came a cross the work of James Reynolds in Southwest Art magazine as a teenager and years later was thrilled to find he had a book out called Trail Dust.
But I was upset too, his color was so much better than mine! so I decided to copy every single painting in the book to figure it out. I didn't have time for elaborate copies so quick thumbnails had to suffice, this was so helpful for me that to this day I do quick color studies of anything and everything to try and improve my chops. These are acrylic on illustration board.

Quick sketch in ink, stream in Angeles Crest Forest.

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.