4-direction landscapitos

I sat in the garden and sketched in the four cardinal directions. Not pictured: the Anna’s hummingbird on the bougainvillea.

I live on USA’s west coast, but the coastline actually runs east-west here, so the ocean is to the south of us. It was interesting how the sky colour was so different in each direction (this was done mid-afternoon.)

In the top image, those are not two electric poles. The one to the left is a raptor pole that K built. It gets good use by owls!

mono lake

I took a good zoom class yesterday with Kristin Meuser, on the topic of Creating Depth in Mini Watercolor Landscapes (or landscapitos, as they are called in the nature journalling community). She’s running another class on Sunday, if you care to attend. I’ll be there!

This was sketched from Kristin’s photo, but I feel like I sat in pretty much this exact spot when we visited Mono Lake last September.