I recently went with the New Mexico Watercolor Society out to the foothills at Elena Gallegos and painting this impression of the scenery. It is more a reflection of the joy I felt being there than an actual replication of the beauty I experienced! A perfect day, with perfect weather!

These two drawings are from live model class. Our model, above, has gone numerous summers to work on fishing boats in Alaska. When she returns, one of things she does is model. I separated the head portrait from the basic body pose in the drawing below it.
 

 These are two recent watercolors of actual sites in New Mexico. The first above is an impression of the Organ Mountains down near Las Cruces, and the bottom one is an impression of a view from the sandstone cliffs at El Mal Pais out near Grants. Mount Taylor, one of the Navajo sacred mountains is in the distance. 

 Here are three very recent watercolors that I did to try to take advantage of some of the beautiful scenery around here. At the most recent state watercolor meeting, I watched a friend of mine do some landscapes, and I thought I would try some of his methodology to create, with some exceptions of my own quirks.

                                         

    From live drawing class: I was doing a portrait of the model and then decided, as in the next drawing to come, to add the rest of the body as a sort of after thought behind the portrait. There is more white on black to come.

This model was dressed like a witch for the occasion, even though not evidently so. To make the picture a bit more macabre, I decided to draw the body separately from the head. I think it worked out pretty well. 

                                        

                                                This is a portrait from a recent live model event.