I know it has been two months since my last
posting, but there was a lot of paperwork to be done after my dear old Mom died
… and now there are the annual accounts to prepare, as well. There is also the matter the commissions I
have been working for the past 13 months, throughout it all, and on which I
have a concentrated few weeks left to finish them off. Therefore, I beg your forbearance, and will reappear
in the next posting when those are completed.
After that I will be preparing to get back out into the wild to paint
and begin posting them here. Meanwhile,
I will leave you with a page from one of my sketchbooks, done several years ago
in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, on the Washington side of the Columbia
Gorge. Ta ta, for now ...
“Lower Lewis Falls”
(Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington
Cascades)
From an Original Sketchbook Drawing in Sepia Wash
heightened with White & Naples Yellow on Turner’s Blue Paper
(sketchbook page size approx. 5” x 7”)
There
is also a Middle & Upper Lewis Falls, both of which I saw as well, before I
came back to this site and drew this scene.
It was 18:21 when I began this sketch and had to work rapidly before the
light faded. I downed tools at
20:07. On a brighter day I might have
worked longer, but it had gradually clouded over throughout the afternoon.
