Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Sunny Sketching in Arizona

Here are a few sketches from my trip to Arizona.  This is the chapel at Tlaquepaque in Sedona.  Tlaquepaque was built in the 1970s to be an village of artists.  It was built to resemble a Mexican village and its namesake is just outside Guadalajara, Mexico. 

It was a stunning, sunny afternoon in Sedona with way to much to sketch and way too little time. 

Sketched with SedonaNan over lunch at the Javelina Cantina in Sedona.  I met Nance at the 1st International Urban Sketching Symposium last summer in Portland, OR.

Then back to Wickenburg, AZ where I managed a quick sketch of 2 guys in the Country Grass Band playing at Chaparral.  And - just had to throw in a sketch of a young saguaro cactus in my in-laws' front yard!  No arms yet; saguaro don't grow arms until they're 50 years old.

If it's February in the Pacific Northwest, you can pretty well bet that every plane to the sunny Southwest will be packed!  Ours was no exception.

7 comments:

  1. Wonderful sketches! I had no idea about the cactus and their arms.

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  2. Love the stories with the sketches. Bring back some of that sunshine/brightness and warm climate.

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  3. These are wonderful! I love knowing some info on each of them too!

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  4. Really enjoyed these sketches and glad you got to see Sedona Nan. I love the way you handled the plane sketch.

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  5. Wonderful sketches, Lisbeth. Love them all. The church is very strong in color and composition.

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  6. Seeing the sketches makes me want to go to sunny Arizona!! Wonderful!
    Missy

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  7. Love your sketches. I am moving to Prescott AZ in November from Renton WA. Don't see a group there so maybe I can start one. Would like to meet Nan in Sedona

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