This morning's sketch of a lake in the Cascades. Watercolor on paper, 3" x 9"

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Scenes from the North Cascades. I saw the marmot moving through the grass north of Glacier Peak, and the fat pika calmly regarded me from the rockfall at Hopkins Pass five miles south of the Canadian border last September.

Watercolor on paper, 4.5" x 6"

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More small watercolor sketches. The point of these was to practice drawing grass, so that happened. I'm a big fan of the idea that if you think you can't draw something, try drawing it a bunch of times. Eventually, you'll get better. The other option is to avoid drawing it at all costs, and nobody will ever know.

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One of the most surprising things about the PCT for me was how many burnt stretches of trail there are. The ones in Oregon and Washington tend to have dense fields of fireweed.

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The first multiday backpacking trip I ever went on was 20 miles of coast in the olympic national park. It's still one of my favorites. If you go, chances are, you'll see a lot of moody sunsets, not to say rain.

7" x 7", watercolor on paper

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A dog named Tilly (chihuahua/wire haired terrier cross) . A lake south of Forester Pass in the High Sierra. A field near Troncones, GRO, Mexico.

All watercolor on paper.

I really wish I could figure out how to let my landscapes get as loose as the dog portrait. (I mean, I'm going to keep at it...)

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I've been going on dawn walks down to the local river mouth lagoon. Everything is violet and orange. (And green, but that's not the notable color at that hour.)

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PCT, May 8, 2021. I'm north of Big Bear. It's hot and dry and I wonder what I'm doing in a place like this. There is a stump that interests me enough to take a picture, and then try to paint it. Twice.

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PCT Mile 175, 4/28/21, approach to Mt. San Jacinto. As the sun sets, I look back and realize I just hiked up that entire ridge line.

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189. Witches Tower and part of Dragontail in the Enchantments, finished and WIP.

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