Landscape I (16x12")

Note: This item is part of the exclusive Studio Sale. Ink on light brown fibrous pastel paper Signed and dated by Julia. Hesperia, California I – This is the first piece of the series of landscapes I drew in ink on paper. This came from a very quick impression and a memory. I loved seeing those arid rocky mountain edges of California, just before you meet Arizona. A last stand of how huge California can be. These 2021 landscape drawings are drawn later as I remember the impressions of the landscape during a 2020 road trip with my husband. We drove across country when we moved from California to New England. This was during the beginning COVID, as so many of us were left unable to afford city living and opted to move to the country or closer to family. I remember distinctly we left Los Angeles during the week of a wildfire... Wildfire smoke that itched our throats and that orange hazy sky was clouding up as we packed our last boxes into the moving truck and kicked up behind us as we dro