Tag Archives: Landscape

Looking Across Tomales Bay

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

I am with my cousin happily sketching for three days near Inverness California. We had a great start this morning along the edge of Tomales Bay with some fog and gorgeous vistas. There was a lot of movement in the … Continue reading →

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At the Xochicalco Pyramids

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

  We went to the Archaeological Monument of Xochicalco, which features the ruins of a huge commercial and religious center of the Olmeca-Xicallanca people. There is a museum and extensive excavated ruins of what once was a very large town … Continue reading →

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Looking West from Kate Sessions Park

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

I painted today at Kate Sessions Park with the San Diego Watercolor Society Wednesday’s plein air group. It was a gorgeous vista full of green that was set off by the lifting fog. This is a gouache sketch on black … 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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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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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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On the Homestead Trail at Prince Edward Island National Park

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Sarah Sullivan

  The rain stopped, the sun came out, the temperature warmed and we spent the afternoon biking on the Homestead Trail at Prince Edward Island National Park. It was incredibly beautiful.  I did something new today. I began with a … Continue reading →

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