Friday, March 4, 2011
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Green Valley, Eastern Sierra Nevada Pastels. Great few days drawing above 10,000ft along the streams, aspens and granite mountains.
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.
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!)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Wandering the West 2010 - Yellowstone National Park
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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