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View from my office window at night. That's the glow of downtown LA over the hill.
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Laura, Gouache sketch.
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We had a great time at the landscape sketching workshop last week in Eaton Canyon. Here are some sketches from that and previous trips to the canyon.
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This bird flew down and all but posed for me while I was landscape sketching out in Hawaii. I like this one better than the landscape I had been working on.
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More views out the office window. I did 50 or 60 of these over the course of a year.
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View from my office window, different times, different days.
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More reference for the drawing class. These are done with B and 3B Ritmo charcoal pencils and Carbothello white pencils on Strathmore charcoal paper.
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Compressed charcoal and white nupastel on strathmore of Clark Allen. A reference for this weeks drawing class.
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Sci fi gouache quicksketch
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Golden barrel cactus at Hunnington Gardens, LA.
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The strangler fig
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Watercolor sketch of Clark Allen
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Butterfly

More drawings of Clark Allen

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A quick sketch of Trace Devai.

Clark Allen, charcoal demonstration. (click to enlarge)

These demonstration posts are here as an online resource for my drawing class. For more information go to www.laafigart.com.

Laura, charcoal demonstration

The previous charcoal and this watercolor sketch are of a sculpture at the Hunnington Gardens in San Marino Ca.

Thumbnail of Pasadena City Hall. I had just been excused from Jury service, so I sat out on the lawn with my sketchbook while security watched me suspiciously.

Thumbnail of the hills near Coalinga Ca (where I grew up).

This and the two previous posts are pages from my travel sketchbook. (Watercolor with white gouache)

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White cow. A page in my watercolor sketchbook
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A drawing of Clark Allen I did over at the Art Academy.
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Sketching in Los Gatos canyon

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A page out of my sketchbook from the Natural History Museum.
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Clark Allen
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The old city, Jerusalem
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