Drawing at the Huntington

A favorite location for many years has been Huntington Gardens...in all seasons...

Here I was experimenting with telling
a "story" in multiple panels and limited palette..

The Japanese Garden in spring...

                                       

A plant sale, and a bacchante...

A very hot summer day...

Films and TV are often shot at the Huntington
here's an elaborate movie set...

 

...and my favorite season, Chinese
New Year at the Huntington,
with persimmon-colored lanterns
hanging everywhere...

More Driving (Passenger!) Drawings...

...Here are more high-speed drawings, generally made on road trips, where I'm fortunate to be the passenger...

Driving in and out of town, morning and night...

Driving to Ventura County 

in the fall...

Driving east to the desert in the morning...

Going to Arizona on a quiet stretch of back road--wonderful, empty expanses!

at dusk...

at night...

going home...

More Drawing in the Desert

Driving out to Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree National Park several times a year is something I really look forward to--such a contrast to my usual urban landscape...here are some recent drawings in the desert...

I never get enough of the sculpture of these Joshua Tree rocks against that blue sky...as the clouds move,,,the colors can change dramatically on the rocks...

 drawing the ruins of miners' cabins in Joshua Tree, and sketching on a walking tour of the Desert Queen Mine...

 On the outskirts of the desert town of Twentynine Palms...there's a wonderful feeling of space...

...and the cloud show changes every day!

The Mojave in spring...I sat on a hill and drew with an old rusted nail I found dipped in paint, and sloshed a bit of wash on with a Chinese brush...

Evening into Night

...is a favorite subject of mine--fading daylight, when colors shift and then deepening into night...

 early evening on Sunset Blvd.
along the bluffs between Echo Park
and Silver Lake...

 a watercolor sketch at sunset...

fading sunset on a Los Angeles
neighborhood street...

last light on the longest day of the year, last June...

night in Los Angeles neighborhoods...

July 4th fireworks seen over the freeway...

and Christmas lights...