Along the Pan-American Highway

I have always enjoyed drawing while on the road from one place to another.
Moving through the landscape, the quick look as it passes by, and something catches my eye. The page is a composite of visual elements, the essentials of the scene.
On the bus from Guatemala City it changes quickly to rural towns and volcanic landscape. Catching people, buildings, animals, things particular to the Central American scene on the pages of my sketchbook.

LAS HAYAS, RONCESVALLES, SPAIN

Las hayas, the beech trees were magnificent in the Spanish Pyrenees.
The top drawing was done in this forest right out of a fairy tale, such old trees
very tall covered in thick green moss, so green, as you can see from the photograph.
We found out about this book, Natural Monumenof Navarra.
In 1991 the government of Navarra designated 31 of it's oldest trees natural monuments.
The book is a great resource with detailed information and maps that will lead you right to the specific tree!

Walking and Drawing

A few end of year drawings done while walking

the reservoir at the Ridgway State Park. It's

an extremely mild holiday week, we need more

snow!

June 22, 2010

Drawing trees, on a walk, the direction and movement of their limbs, interconnected, and the shapes of the spaces they make. These drawings often are the start for a studio painting.

"The walk magnified is the journey" - the big landscape and then the closeness of a tree.

COLORADO LANDSCAPE
I found A POEM IS A WALK by A.R. Ammons - "I take the walk to be the externalization of an

interior seeking...".

There are many drawings done on walks in these books that I carry with me. So much looking,

then really seeing something, and then making a drawing.