11.14.'16 Sunset over the hills

Materials: Conte crayons and Rembrandt pastels on Mi-Teintes Touch sanded pastel paper
I painted this from a photograph my departmental colleague took at her research site. Sunsets really are my favourite, it is difficult to choose anything else that captures nature's grandeur in such flamboyant colours.

12.01.'16 The bay at dusk

Material: Saunders watercolour postcard paper, Mission Gold/Cotman/Daniel Smith watercolour paints, white Graphitint pencil, Derwent Inktense pencil in Indian Ink, Raphael watercolour brush
This was painted from my photograph of the golden gate bridge at dusk. I cannot say that I am especially fond of that structure, but it sure does have some poetic appeal when the sun is setting over SF.