52 Watercolor artist | JUNE 2020
n I was
raduate
entat
Texas
Uni-
, in
, Texas,
torand
bacher,
suggestedthatI signupfora summer
classhetaughtinPaloDuroCanyon
StatePark,justeastoftown.The
classmetonweekdayswitha 7 a.m.
starttimetoavoidsomeoftheTexas
heat.Inspiteofthatearlymorning
meetingtime,I signedup,andthen
signedupagainthefollowingsum-
mer.I washooked.
Later,aftercompletingmyM.F.A.
degree,I movedtoColoradoand
accepteda positionatColoradoMesa
University,inGrandJunction.Inmy
freetime,I continuedtogooutsideto
sketch,visitingspotsinColorado,Utah
andWyoming.Myfirsteffortswere
usually in pencil, in a small sketchbook,
but over time I began to introduce
color to my sketches, using watercolor.ABOVE AND LEFT
I painted A Study in Green, Moraine Park,
Rocky Mountain National Park, June 2013
(ink and watercolor) in a Strathmore
watercolor sketchbook. I sketched it in
about an hour while sitting on a hillside in
the Moraine Park area, just across the way
from the Moraine Park Discovery Center
on Bear Lake Road at Rocky Mountain
National Park.