Last Saturday my friend Dennis and I braved the unseasonal heat to paint in Eaton Canyon. We hiked up a wash and found a spot in the shade of some trees with a beautiful view of the San Gabriel Mountains. I did a few small study sketches, and a finished sketch in my large sketchbook. I used a variety of colors, and positive/negative shapes to convey the layering of bushes, trees, medium distance foliage and distant mountains. Power lines and towers are a part of every Eaton C

For a few years now I have been working on my next book entitled Los Angeles Sketchbook. It will be similar to both of my previous sketchbooks: Pasadena Sketchbook, and Redlands Sketchbook, and will be filled with sketches and paintings of Los Angeles. I am currently preparing new images, and continuing to rework previously done paintings. This post contains a few of my most recent works. Some are still being refined. The majority of the paintings are 11” x 14”. A few are 14”

Last week I attended the annual Saturday in the Park event hosted by the Mid Valley Arts League. It was a beautiful spring day, chilly with scattered clouds. I did another in a series of architectural sketches of the original Ambassador Auditorium, and another version of the timbered house up on the hill. I did my studies in a Stillman and Birn Beta Series sketchbook, and the final paintings on 14” x 20” Fabriano cold press, using both waterproof and water soluble pens, and a