Sketchbook Journeys: Colorado – June 2011: Page 1

As promised, here are the watercolor sketches I did while on vacation with my family in Colorado. We had such a great time, and my mom, sister, and niece were so generous in allowing me time to sketch when we were out and about. Without their encouragement, I wouldn’t have been able to spend as much time painting as I did.

Here’s page 1 of my Colorado journal. I always like to do a title page to introduce each section of my travel sketchbook. This time it has a rainbow border filled with some of the things that were special about our trip, plus an elliptical framed landscape.

9″ x 12″ American Journey watercolor sketchbook

The landscape painting shows one of the prettiest places we visited, Eleven Mile Canyon, along the South Platte River, near Lake George, Colorado.

Visit again tomorrow – I’ll be posting six more days of Colorado sketches!

4 Comments

  • Brilliant! 🙂 all the Colorado sketches. Well, hardly sketches really, they look like full blown art

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  • I agree, these are amazing Leslie. I've been there too and you have captured it beautifully.

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  • Ooooh My! What gorgeous eye candy! Colorado is one of my most favorite places in the world. I absolutely love your sense of composition and artistic detailing. What a treasure this journal is. I feel it an honor to have taken a peek through it. Mmmmm!

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  • Your comment made my day, Margaret! So glad you enjoyed looking at my sketches.

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