happy new year & sending off some old landscape studies

getting ready to send off two landscapes, both painted on location last summer ; "Scorched Pine, Estes Park, CO" & "Oak overlooking the Hudson River, Yonkers, NY ", oil on board, roughly 12" x 9" each... below is a detailed graphite & chalk study of the dying Pine tree that is featured in the "Estes Park" painting (from the sketchbook)...

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 details of evening lit "Pine" ...

Looking forward...

portrait of Jamal

another study of Jamal, (see earlier figure study a few posts below), portrait sketch (in ~4 hrs), graphite & chalk on toned paper...