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Because She Asked

A former drawing student, now a long time friend who lives far away, ordered many notecard packages from my website (you can do that too – this is The Notecard Page.)

She asked if I had anything of Kings Canyon, or perhaps Hume Lake. Nothing. I’ve got nothing. Even the General Grant Tree has finally sold out.

This sent me to my photographs, in search of something to redraw, or maybe even something new. It also caused me to dig around to find the old drawings of Kings Canyon.

Kings Canyon Overlook, drawn in 2001 for one of the last variety set of notecards. It’s not embarrassing, even 19 years later.
This is a small part of a larger collage drawing, and I like the addition of the yucca in bloom.
The collage was a commissioned drawing of highlights from both Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. 

The overlook is the winner for a Kings Canyon drawing to be made into notecards. It isn’t part of Kings Canyon National Park, just part of the geographical area called Kings Canyon. But since I am not doing this for The Park, it doesn’t matter. 

Beginnings, looking at a mess of photos and a messed up print of the yucca version.

This is going quite fast, helped along by experience, combined with listening to Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, read by Tom Hanks. (I love our county library system.)

And if you are interested in buying notecards with this drawing on it, please let me know. If enough folks want them, I’ll order some. They’ll be the same as most of my cards – 4-1/2 x 5-1/2″, 4 to a package for $8.

2 Comments

  1. I’m interested in ordering some notecards! I love the addition of the yucca plant- so California!

    • Thank you, Anne! I’ll see if there is more response before I decide. The verdict isn’t in yet; although hand written notes are still part of my life, it is a dying courtesy.

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