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I've sometimes heard complaints about the dusty landscape of Coalinga (central California) where I grew up but I don't share those sentiments.
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Bangkok
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Angeles National Forest Northeast of Los Angeles.
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More moleskine painting
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Though I usually use a craft paper sketch book to paint in, I also enjoy carrying around a small moleskine, it's just so handy! So, some years ago I decided to put together a pocket size watercolor kit for the moleskine. This is what I came up with.

The case is a samsonite camera case and the drawings are in black prismacolor pencils.

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A few more Grand Canyon sketches.

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Arizona canyon at dusk.

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Late afternoon in Zion National park, Utah.
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In the middle of Arizona page 2.
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Somewhere in the middle of Arizona.
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Outside Bryce Canyon Nat'l Park, Utah
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I have more sketches of the Grand Canyon I'll post later, but for this week, let's jump over to Bryce Canyon.
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Continuing Grand Canyon sketches.
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I spent my summer vacation touring the national parks of Arizona and Utah. We'll start with the Grand Canyon. These were painted in a heavyweight black paper scrapbook. The dark paper seemed to suit the subject as there was so much light bouncing around in the shadows. I "borrowed" the black paper idea from one of my former students Chris Sears.

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These are my demo sketches from our landscape sketching class trip to Eaton Canyon in Pasadena. Good times.

And for those of you who have been asking for higher res images, the middle one is for you.
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Rocks in Angeles Crest Forest.
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Late afternoon outside Coalinga in central California.
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This will be the final Death Valley post for awhile; we'll move on to a new subject next week. If the sketches here feel a little different than the previous posts, it's because they were done many years earlier. These were done in acrylic on a Prince of Egypt art department trip in 1997. We didn't get to go to Egypt but did spend a week in Death Valley studying the desert landscape. The top one predates a sandstorm by about 10 minutes, the textures you see on it were created when it blew over into the sand. Great trip.
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Dusk in Death Valley.
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Continuing the Death Valley posts. These and the previous are from a trip there during Christmas break a few years back.
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Again in Death Valley. This is the opposite view of the previous post.
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Death Valley. Looking out from the mouth of Mosaic Canyon.
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More from Death Valley
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Near the entrance to Death Valley
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Lake Arrowhead California after sunset.
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Canyons outside of Hurricane Utah.
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Northern California pond. You have to paint quick when it's getting dark.
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Costa Rican waterfall
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Corcovado Rain Forest stream, Costa Rica.
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Santa Clara hills

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Northern California woods.
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From a trip to Costa Rica.
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The flowers have come into bloom here in the Santa Clarita valley.
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