A COUPLE MORE SKETCHES  

Yosemite Falls from Valley Chapel

Finishing a sketchbook is a really rewarding experience for me! - Just finished my 36 page Moleskin - with the two sketches below.... Will be purchasing another for my trip into the High Sierras in August.  - There is a real sense of accomplishment for any artist when you see a pile of finished work in front of you. My sketchbooks are dear to me and are like photo albums of my life.....

A pile of sketchbooks on my desk

Dusk at the Beach - Looking North to Rosecrans

A Street Corner

RED WHITE AND BLUE

Ocean Drive Summer Afternoon

Old Glory! say, who,
By the ships and the crew,
And the long, blended ranks of the gray and the blue,
Who gave you, Old Glory, the name that you bear
With such pride everywhere
As you cast yourself free to the rapturous air
And leap out full-length, as we're wanting you to?
Your stripes stroked in ripples of white and red,
With your stars at their glittering best overhead
By day or by night
Their delightfulest light
Laughing down from their little square heaven of blue!
Who gave you the name of Old Glory? - say, who
Who gave you the name of Old Glory?
The old banner lifted, and faltering then
In vague lisps and whispers fell silent again.

The Name of Old Glory - verse 1 by James Whitcomb Riley

Between Buildings