Category Archives: Landscape

Spring Comes to The Homestead Trail

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

I took the photo that this picture is based on while biking on the Homestead Trail at Prince Edward Island National Park earlier this month. It was still pretty cold, at least to my California bones, and most of the … Continue reading →

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Near Buckeye Arizona

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

  In the series of travel sketches I just completed, I somehow skipped over Arizona, my home state.  I want to fill this gap by posting this sketch that I made as we drove past the irrigated fields near Buckeye yesterday. … Continue reading →

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Home Is Just Over the Laguna Mountains

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

After a month on the road the sight of the Laguna Mountains in the distance made me so happy. As you drive west from El Centro the mountains first come into view as a faint blue smudge and within 30 minutes … Continue reading →

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New Mexican Hills 

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

Yesterday evening at dusk we were driving across southern New Mexico. It was an arid area and the setting sun enhanced the yellows of the grasses. I liked the layers that the stretches of grass, trees and sky made and … Continue reading →

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Texan Trees

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

I drew as we drove from Austin to New Mexico today across a mesmerizing landscape. The trees, I think live oak trees, were thick near Austin, but the further we drove the more sparse they became. They were somewhat backlit … Continue reading →

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Hillside near Austin

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

Hillside Near Austin I sketched with pastel pencil as we drove along today, trying to get the basic feel of the landscape as it flew past us.

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An Old Pine Tree

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

An Old Pine Tree I sketched this at the same cemetery that we stopped by yesterday afternoon. I stood on the hillside below this huge old partially dead pine tree and drew a portion of it in a very small … Continue reading →

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