landscape sketch painting

I had driven past Zuma Beach the other day and it was so lonely looking with the food stand closed and the beach almost deserted. I wanted ...

I've been posting traditional media sketches up to this point, but I decided to post an image I did on my i-phone while waiting in the C...

I get to Yverdon several times a year it seems. I posted a view of the old 1800's church facade on the square a few weeks ago, so I dec...

I had a wonderful Saturday morning sitting on a park bench for about an hour and sketching this view of the back of Notre Dame cathedral on ...

I sketched this auto repair shop last week in a neighborhood in the Morumbi area of Sao Paulo. I leaned up against a tree and was a bit unc...

I did this sketch in my Moleskine sketchbook back in September on a trip to Switzerland. I didn't post it at the time, but decided to p...

I had a few minutes while waiting for a collegue to return before we took off to the airport. I walked out of the Curtis Hotel and found a ...

Just this last week, 3 of my sons and I backpacked into Treasure Lakes, which is very up hill from Bishop, California. (My fourth son sadly...

I just came back Saturday from Milan, Italy. On Friday, I had a little time to walk around the Grand Canal area and get some gelatto and si...

I just came back from the coolest trip to Dingle, Idaho (north of Bear Lake, if you know the area).  It's been raining all spring and th...

I had a chance last week on a business trip to Cleveland to go out to Kirtland and visit the old town that was settled by Mormon pioneers in...

I got a great chance to tour a favela while in Rio at the end of April.  It's generally not recommended to go in without a guide as the ...

OK, back to the landscapes.  We went to Zuma Beach Monday with Christy and her girls.  It was just beautiful.  I brought my small sketchbook...

Yeah, I know this is not a landscape.  I was painting Disney princesses with my grand daughters and I got tired of so much refined cuteness....

I re-loaded these sketches as I thought the other ones were underexposed.  All are water colors and were done a week ago in Switzerland and ...

Craig and I went to Paramount ranch this morning for a couple of hours.  I had never tried pastels before and we had been talking about chan...

This is a view of the Spice Market and a nearby Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.  The weather was cold and rainy, so I painted indoors from my la...

Where else but in Southern California can you go painting outdoors in January and have the weather be 85 degrees and sunny? Craig and I and...

I thought this old cabin had great character with it's metal roof, red color and funky windows. Done in watercolor in my ring bound 6x9...

Everything looked so wonderful covered in snow. These cabin roofs were the view from where we were sliding on the cookie sheet.