I am back in Arizona doing more fieldwork for future paintings. The southwest area is so inspiring with light and color!! It seems everywhere I look I can envision a new painting! This session of study and photoshoots will be much more inclusive than the last time my family and I were in the area. Because of the amount of rain the state has had, many of the plants and habitats are thriving. I have been photographing and sketching many of the cacti and succulents of the area – though many of the sketches were made in the car doing 75 mph :). The sketches didn’t turn out too badly in spite of the speed. I will post some of them shortly. Actually, working while literally "on the road" is not something new, but it isn’t often I work from life in those instances when it (my subject) is speeding toward me on the highway. I do paint in the car when the roads aren’t too rough – and occasionally when they are :).