Hand Colored Etching #28/100 10”x8” $250
It was a brisk and clear afternoon when I started this piece, a picture of a place where I used to play as a kid. It’s located in the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Our house was in a new development so two blocks away the houses and yards stopped and it turned into open desert for miles around. The poplar trees and bushes are part of a wind break for an old farm house about a quarter mile away. We build forts and tunnels and caught all kinds of snakes and lizards. There was also an amazing diversity of birds.
I used the transparent and tube watercolors and some “plate tone” to try and capture the pastel tones in the foliage and the strong shadows of the trunks and branches in the late afternoon sun.
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