The Southern California Apple Valley has no apples that I'm aware of, it's fairly arid but still filled with rich colors.
February 15, 2012
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Priest Valley at Sunset, Central California.
February 10, 2012
February 02, 2012
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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.
January 27, 2012
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Los Gatos canyon, CA.
January 19, 2012
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Sage and amber grass with backlight in Central California.
January 12, 2012
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This is a demo I did for the watercolor class at the Laguna College of Art and Design.
January 06, 2012
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Cedar Creek Falls, Oregon.
December 30, 2011
From a trip to Italy back in the early nineties.
December 23, 2011
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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!
December 15, 2011
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Tahoe woods, Ca. Water soluble ink in my sketchbook.
December 09, 2011
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Local blooms, watercolor on arches paper.
November 28, 2011
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Smokey Bear Creek.
November 17, 2011
Cedar Creek Oregon
November 08, 2011
. . I promise to get back to good ol' gouache next week, in the mean time maybe this digital demo will interest you.
November 02, 2011
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Angeles Creek, digital.
October 26, 2011
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October 19, 2011
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Coalinga hillside.
October 12, 2011
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Watercolor in Death Valley.
October 05, 2011
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A demo page I did for my landscape sketching class last spring, Placerita Canyon, CA. .
September 28, 2011
. . Desert scape, digital. .
September 21, 2011
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Tulips.
September 15, 2011
. The Corcovado rain forest, Costa Rica.
September 08, 2011
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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.
September 01, 2011
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Brrrrrrrrr.
August 26, 2011
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Moonscape
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August 16, 2011
. . Acrylic on illustration board
August 11, 2011
. . Flaming Gorge Lake, Utah.
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August 05, 2011
. . Quicksketch at Lake Tahoe, CA. .
July 26, 2011
. Painted for "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron". .
July 15, 2011
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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.
July 09, 2011
. . . . 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. .
