Category Archives: Just Sketches

Rifle Falls State Park

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Don West

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Study, Chattahoochee River Birches

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Don West

Chattahoochee River Birches Study

I found this while looking through a box of old sketches. I remember the day I did this. I was slowly floating down the Chattahoochee, north of Atlanta, in a little fishing kayak. I didn’t catch anything but I did get a couple of sketches done. Of those, this one was my favorite. It captures a slow rolling Southern river bank pretty much anywhere in the Southland.

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Zion National Park Watercolor Sketch

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Don West

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One of my artist and sketch-blogging friends, Cary Cochran, suggested I type the text that is scribbled on each of the sketches…he has a stiff neck and enlightened me on the fact that others may suffer the same affliction I think that’s a dandy idea! So with this sketch and all future ones…

Sketch Text…
I was a bit tired of doing “info-sketches” about the tools I use to sketch…so I did a travel sketch today. I went to Zion years ago so I dug up a photo I liked and worked from that. I’m gonna do some exploring this Spring and Summer and do nothing but travel sketches.

It was fun to get back to doing a landscape with just watercolor and a bit of white gouache.