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Yellowstone Park Company Bus • Inked

Tour Bus Penciled

Tour Bus Detail

A detail of a small tour bus drawing that I am working on in my latest sketchbook.

Rocky Mountain Field Seminars & Educational Adventures 2012

I am very excited to be a part of the Rocky Mountain Field Seminars & Educational Adventures for 2012. I will be teaching a two-day workshop on "Pen & Ink Sketches with Watercolor" in beautiful Rocky Mountain National Park this summer. The course is open for registration and the dates are June 23-24, 2012.

My workshop will focus on capturing your surroundings in a sketchbook using pen and ink techniques combined with watercolor. As we focus on that task we will discuss composition, materials, tools and drawing techniques while sketching in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado!

Please visit www.rmna.org or call 970-586-3262 for more information.

Yellowstone Association Institute Autumn Field Seminars

I am pleased to return to the Yellowstone Association Institute as an instructor this coming autumn. My course "Capturing Fall Colors in Your Travel Sketchbook" is open for registration now. It will be a three-day workshop September 21-23, 2012.

My course will enable you to immerse yourself in the colors and patterns of autumn as you learn travel sketchbook and journaling techniques. You’ll spend most of the time outdoors enjoying site-based lectures, demonstrations, and drawing time. Learn about the best materials for drawing on the move and how to sketch what you see. You’ll explore line and color, pen and ink, and experiment with conveying life and character of the world around you. And you’ll have a crash course in watercolor! Return home with a highly personal, visual journal that will help you remember details of sights and experiences that you might have missed or forgotten otherwise.

Find out more at the Yellowstone Association Institute official website, download a PDF or call 406-848-2400 for more information or to register.

The Entire Composition

View from the Visitor Center Porch

I did this quick sketch last month while standing on the Visitor Center porch at Colorado National Monument. It was done as a demonstration for my talk on field sketching for their association.

View from an Angle at the Visitor Center

This is a view of Independence Monument from beside the Visitor Center at Colorado National Monument last month.

Yellowstone Panels

A collection of little sketches in small panels done as a demo for my Yellowstone course last week.

Old Faithful Historic District

A quick sketch looking back on the Old Faithful Historic District from the boardwalk. I will be here and sketching next week while teaching a sketching workshop for the Yellowstone Association Institute. I am told that my class is full and I am looking forward to teaching in one of my favorite places in the world.