Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Japanese Garden watercolor painting

A little painting I made on a visit wth my folks to the Portland (Oregon) Japanese Garden.
It may be hard to tell from this angle that it's a Japanese garden.  Placed in a large forest, it was more wild than tame, but the obligatory standing stones gave the feel of the traditional Japanese garden, as well as the effort to make nature look somehow more natural.


Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Sketchbook Page 21: Bird, Bunny, Plants



These sketches I created while on the plane back home from having seen some of Portland, based on some photos I took at McMenamins Edgefield, a hotel/ resort/ farm/ ranch.  The photos follow.



Sketch of bird, bunny, plants. pencil 


Bird 
Bunny 

Bunny
Artichoke Plant