After the long hours working on The Old Road walnut ink paintings/drawings, doodling around in a sketchbook is relaxing and allows my brain to sort and plan for future paintings. A while back I found very nice little sketchbooks at
American Science and Surplus. This is a fun catalog and store for finding a wide variety of things you didn't know you needed until seeing it in the catalog. These sketchbooks were just the right size, about 6 x 8" with very white paper that is heavy enough to take ink pen work. Three books for a price worth taking a chance on.
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| Old Maple Tree |
After I started playing with this tree drawing, the rest of the book seemed to follow the theme, and just this week I finished the last page, and all the sketches are of trees, from places as far away as California, but mostly the trees are all neighbors or old friends of mine from nearby.
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Peter's Orange Pig
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Now that the sketchbook is full, the next painting is getting more attention. So here are some more from the sketchbook, and I'll be back with something new in a while......
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A row of eucalyptus trees in California
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Disappointments can lead to some good things, so when my long planned trip to Arizona was cancelled the most symbolic object of the trip s...
Snow Hoodoos Near Balu Pass This is the second painting, just finished, from our Canadian backcountry travels, featuring one of my...
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