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I participated in a sketchcrawl with the Placer Arts League at the Quarry Park in Rocklin, CA. We had a little over an hour to draw or paint something. I wasn't so happy with my first sketch of the quarry painting attempt with watercolor. After the event, I took a photo at the park of this rusted car and back home I sketched out this scene with an ink pen and painted it with watercolor to see if this technique will work for a future sketchcrawl. Of course I took a lot longer with this one so it is much more finished and detailed than what can be done in an hour.

Quarry Park is a central gathering place and picturesque setting for community events, concerts, quiet walks through nature, and active play. Quarry Park is home to an amphitheater, trails, open space, and wildlife. In 2017, Rocklin moved forward with plans to start designing an adventure park in the abandoned quarry at Quarry Park. Plans included a zip line down the seven-story quarry, rock climbing facilities o...

My search to find my biological family was the genesis of my journey into the world of art. When I finally found my birth family, at the age of 40, I was plunged into a new and very different family. On one occasion while talking with the father I had never known, I discovered that my great uncle was the renowned watercolorist Dong Kingman. Fatefully discovering a cheap watercolor paint set, and intrigued by my relationship with Kingman, I wondered if I had inherited any of his talent. This lingering question spurred me into trying to paint. My first challenge was deciding what subjects I would paint. As a fan of Van Gogh, and knowing that he painted images from his day to day life: houses, fields, people working, I decided to do the...