Looking up at the Sneffels Range while catching your breath makes a Colorado hike perfect.
This is a closeup sketch of a path along a meadow edge in Colorado at my brother’s place. I like the shapes of the junipers and want to capture these each time I visit.
This is from yesterday’s Zoom still-life sketch meeting. I like how the stripes in our last few sessions add dimension to the compositions.
Something locals and tourists enjoy in the San Diego area is kayaking along the caves of the La Jolla Ecological Reserve and Underwater Park. You can rent a kayak and go out with a guide for a few hours. Last Thursday, I painted several groups of people waiting to kayak to the caves and back. I liked the patterns the figures and paddles made against the sky, sea, and sand.
The artist who set up our still life for our Tuesday night Zoom group this week has an eye for stripes, which works well for gouache on black paper.
El Monte Park was the San Diego Watercolor Society’s June Paintout location, a perfect place for artists, walkers, and dogs to enjoy a morning together.
The contrast between the shaded oak grove and the sunny field caught my eye, and I chose a composition that emphasized this difference.
Bonita Museum and Culture Center hosted a Plein Air Paintout today to open its cross-border exhibition, Beyond the Border. Bonita is a small city between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, and is in a perfect location for a dual show. The show runs all June.
I painted in an old grove of eucalyptus with a thick carpet of fallen leaves and bark. It was a cold and gray morning initially, and the interplay of the near-white tree trunks against the hills and sky was striking.
Deliberate Sketching 