I returned from a 5 week trip to the lower 48 last month. I visited friends and relatives in Arizona, Texas, and Florida. As usual, I took my journal/sketchbook. Below are some of my sketches. I included some brown pages in my handmade book to encourage me to use gouache.
The desert across from my friend Mary's home in Ajo, Arizona....
I was fascinated with the plants in the desert. Here are some listed that I saw on a hike in Tucson and the Jojoba I brought to the house and painted...
this tiny lupine, almost like the lupines at home but much smaller, from the desert near Ajo....
The mission church in Ajo, now a museum....
An afternoon and Canyon Lake near San Antonio, Texas.
In Lake Wales, Florida visiting my brother, I found a wildlife preserve a short walk away full of unknown trees that I tried to identify. I painted this that I'm pretty sure is Pignut Hickory.
Almost home, in Juneau, I spent a Saturday morning with the
Plein Rein Painters. Instead of facing the elements, we painted from a studio on Douglas Island across from town.
