RED ROCK CANYON NEAR LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, 10 x 16 inch ink and watercolor by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

Red Rock Canyon is a National Conservation Area about 15 miles west of Las Vegas, Nevada.  It features a visitors' center and a 13-mile one-way loop road with many scenic overlooks with parking for access to hiking trails and rock climbing sites.  Pat drove me around the circuit once while I scouted good locations for drawing, then a second time when we parked at the locations I had selected.  The plants in the foreground at the overlook where I drew the red rocks and distant mountains were not very interesting, so I "transplanted" some cactus from another site nearby.  Artistic license.

UPDATE:
Red Rock Canyon, Nevada is currently on exhibit in the exhibition PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF CHICAGO at the Palette & Chisel Academy Gallery, 1012 N. Dearborn Street in Chicago through February 3, 2018.

GEORGE SQUARE, GLASGOW

George Square, Glasgow, 15 x 10 inch ink, watercolor and colored pencil by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

I drew this one afternoon last July in George Square in the heart of Glasgow's Merchant City.  That imposing building houses the City Chambers.  The column at the right is topped by a statue of Sir Walter Scott, the novelist.  Sir Walter is topped by a seagull, as are most of the statues in Glasgow.  An exception is the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in front of the Gallery of Modern Art, which is topped by an orange traffic cone.  I kid you not.

ROOFTOPS OF BELHAVEN TERRACE, GLASGOW

Belhaven Rooftops, Glasgow, 16 x 10 inch ink and watercolor by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

One of the reasons for my 3-week visit to Scotland this summer was to attend the wedding festivities for my sister's stepdaughter.  She and her new husband live and work in London, but planned this destination wedding in his hometown of Glasgow, Scotland.  We stayed at the Belhaven Hotel, which occupies a lovely Edwardian building in the West End of Glasgow near the wedding venue.  Picture Belhaven Terrace as an oval street of outward-facing buildings squashed flat to run parallel to the Great Western Road.  The Belhaven Hotel is on the north-facing side of the terrace and looks over the Terrace, a narrow parkway, and then the Great Western Road.  The back of the hotel, where my room was located, looks over a low outbuilding toward the backs of the houses on the south-facing side of Belhaven Terrace.  One afternoon I opened the window and spent some time drawing this view. 

This painting is in my current exhibition at 3 Crowns Park Gallery.  See previous post for details.