SoCal Series: Joshua Tree

Considerations of possible titles for this post included: "Positive Negative Space," "Nature's Origami," and, from the Joshua Tree National Park Service Cholla Cactus Garden literature, "Self-Guiding Nature Trail." In the end, though, as is so often the case, the images best speak for themselves.

SoCal Series: Anza Borrego

Just returned from a trip to Southern California -

If it's contemplative space and cultural remove you seek, there's nothing like a trip to the desert in the middle of August. Anza Borrego can yield temperatures in excess of 124º F in the summer, limiting human contact to the hardy and the foolhardy. Plainly, the desert can really play with your sense of scale.

More desert posts ahead...

"attacked_cumulonimbus_foregone"

graphite on paper

"loud_plow"

graphite on paper

"riff"

graphite on paper

"knows_fizgig"

graphite on paper

"poor_revenuer"

acrylic on magazine paper

"bowsy"

graphite on paper

"baseline groove"

graphite on paper

"spiffing_garland_of_happenstance"

acrylic on magazine paper

July's Palettes