Cross Country Day 8: Yellowstone and Bears

Ok, I'm going to have to truncate some of these posts, because seriously, I have a crap-load of back posts I need to get up and on this blog!

Yellowstone! We saw a mamma grizzly and her two babies! Adorable, but dangerously adorable!

We saw lots of steaming volcanic geysers and hot springs and buffalo! Baby buffalo!

And, we crossed the continental divide! West coast, here we come!

Joshua Tree

Felt like doing another illustration from my early May trip to Joshua Tree- so many lizards and blossoms, it was hard not to take so many photos! Check out the rest of my joshua tree pics on my flickr set! : )

More Joshua Tree studies

Just a quick sketch...

Mojave Mound cactus

Another cactus study from my trip! This is the Mojave Mound cactus- beautiful red blossoms with some mighty scary spikes! Ouch!

Finished beavertail cactus, with more color

Here is yesterday's drawing, with color, as promised! Just did a light pass with color- wanted to preserve the texture of the text beneath. Enjoy!

Halfway there

Feeling very much under the weather tonight, so can only get this up- started this at lunchtime; meant to color it in, so it's only halfway done. Will try to get the finished color pass up tomorrow with another drawing! enjoy! (it's a beavertail cacti from Joshua Tree)