Tahquitz Sycamores

                                                         watermedia on Yupo 26x20

                                                         beginning watercolor stage

Another Palm Springs painting, no golfers in sight. That city is surrounded by great hiking opportunities and I wonder if they ever promote that fact to tourists? In my opinion, it was worth the over priced airline ticket.
 The bottom version is all watercolor. I wanted to establish some transparent areas before finishing with more opaque acrylic brushwork and washes.

Downstream Tahquitz

                                                          watermedia on Yupo 26x20

If this creek, just west of downtown Palm Springs, had a normal flow in a normal year, those massive polished boulders and cliffs would have largely been submerged. But there is no normal anywhere any more. California faces an extremely serious drought which is predicted to have a major economic impact. It`s hard not to wonder how President Gore would have persuaded the country to act. When we were away in the desert, there were wildfires on the Oregon coast, in January, in the rainforest!! The Republican Party can`t die quick enough, we have hard work to attend to.


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