Landscape II (16x12")

Ink on light brown fibrous pastel paper Signed and dated by Julia. Hesperia, California II – California has these varied colors and textures in the mountains as they begin to lower and flatten, just before you meet Arizona.  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 drove away from the place and people we loved over the last decade. As we drove, the vast sky and arid landscapes of the West felt like fresh air to me. A fullness. But my impressions were