Gary Geraths

EXOTIC MUSINGS - Dancing Winter Scribbles

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Green Valley, Eastern Sierra Nevada Pastels. Great few days drawing above 10,000ft along the streams, aspens and granite mountains.

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Aspens and boulders climbing the steep ravine covered with fallen autumn leaves. Green Valley

Late afternoon light pouring down the canyon casting shadows and casting twisting shadows and warm bouncing light. Process photo of the drawing from the site below

Giant granitr boulder resting on the valley floor with high contrast light and warm and cool bounced colors.

Swirling Green River waters and aspen forests.

My in field set up with all my portable gear, easels boxes of selected pastels, fold up table and water (gets hot out there in the direct sun!)

Drawing in progress. Blocked out start of pastel on canson paper

Green Mountain Valley waetrcolor

Sierra Nevada Mountain Watercolors - Plein Air, backcountry

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Mountain Stream in the Green Valley, Eastern Sierra

Virginia Lakes at 13,00ft In the north Esat Sierra nevada

Bodie, old 1880s mining ghosttown, Eastern Sierra

Anicent dead pine high above Twin Lakes, Bridgeport, California

Green Lake in May during an amazingly windy cold day to plein-air paint this watercolor

Old handbuilt saloons in Bodie

Old cedar tree trunk and mountain creek

May Lake with late spring iceflows and towering Sierra peaks above Bridgeport

Wonderfully colorful creek high in Green Canyon

Wandering the West 2010 - Yellowstone National Park

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These are small sketchbook drawings worked up in mixed media of watercolor, graphite and colored pencil.The largest is double-paged 5" X 7" and the smallest at about 2" square. They were all plein-aire artworks and all done in the field

Herds of buffalo gathering together by the hundreds moving via a narrow forest ridge to pasture in the Lamar Valley

Buffalo getting a steam bath from open boiling hot mud pots and steam vents

Steaming hot mineral pool & dead lodgepole pines killed by the intense heat of the water

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Wandering the West 2010 - Glacier National Park

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Twisting Cedar trees, Avenue of the Cedars, Montana

Clemet Peak logan Pass, Glacier NP

View from deep in the Highline Trails

Indian Paintbrush & lupine & lots of burnt trees, Poleridge,

Grinell Peak & Glacier, Garden Wall, Highline Trail

High granite ridge above Avalanche Lake

Wandering 2010 - Gayle & Mr Dans Ranch, Montana

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The Goldens and Borders

Stanp mill,ore silo & shack in 1880s silver mine ghost town. Granite, Montana

Aspen trees and daisy meadow

Deep ravine meadow and aspen groves, Montana

A Month of Hiking and Sketching up in the San Gabriel Mtns. - Pencil Sketches and a Couple of Watercolors done the Winter of 2010

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Twisted trunks of Oaks & Sycamores a deep ravine. Compositions work around value arrangements and fun wicked drawings of texturewatercolor done in cold weather of Thunder Mtn. & Cucamonga Peaks. late afternoon raking light. Took a little over an hourGiant tall cedar tree towering over San Antonio Canyon. Pencil on paper

Most of these approximate 5"X10" sketches were done off the beaten path of various mountain trails in the Mt. Baldy area in the month of Feburary 2010. A vast majority of them took from 30 minutes to a little over an hour to complete. Value,quickness, terrain, and texture were the most important points I considered High Ice Bowl and 10,000ft ridge on Mt. Baldy. Pencil drawing 5" X 14"5" X 16" Graphite drawing of Mt Baldy ice bowl showing Big Granite boulders and landside broken pine trees

A Few 30 Minute Pencil Sketches done at Mountains, Hills and Valleys throughout Southern California

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Studio Mischief....weekend 6" X 10" oil paintings focusing on color mixing, compliments and reflective light bounce

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WILDLIFE WAYSTATION - Sunday drawing field trip sketches from the Animal Drawing Class. We had great sunny weather and were surrounded by many big cats, bears, ligers, cougars, monkeys and assorted beasties. A selection of sketches about 6" X 10 " in size.

Ligress Arianna - Portrait in pencil

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Rangoon - Wildlife Waystation

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Rangoon the Sleek, Handsome Tiger

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Conan the Lion's 550 pound new wife...charming

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Pencil Drawing 7"x 10" - African Hyena

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Big cute African Hyena

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Idaho Lions Lounging in the Sun

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Lioness mingling in packs - Wildlife Waystation

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Rocky marching over for a chicken dinner

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Rocky - Dominate Male Lion - Idaho Pride

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Lioness climbing up onto platform & roaring

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3 lioness form Idaho lions Pride

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500 pound Lioness fast asleep

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Tiger in agressive Stance then jumping across log

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Welcome To My Blog!

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My name is Gary Geraths and I am a Professor at the Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles, CA.