Gas Pain Relief

Here is a really old sketch from Bluffton, Indiana in the hopes of cheering some of you up. Notice the gas prices. And behold, no storage shed on the courthouse! (see last week’s courthouse blog) Prices have been hovering under two dollars a gallon for some time and recently cracked two dollars here. So, in eighteen years the gas price has risen about eighty-five cents. Never mind last year’s price spike. Let us all celebrate before it is too late. Below this sketch are some more recent petrol pumpsters on a cold February day.

Return to Mesa

An amazing thing about the desert is just add water and practically anything will grow in southern Arizona. This capture of a typical residential corner is full of life, though the brown ground seemingly suggests the earth is dead. The sketch needed more color so I suggested a red sky sky with bold strokes of Prismacolor. It balances the entire sketch, as the strokes contrast to the cacti on the ground, but also echo a relationship to the overall composition of the plant life on the earth.