Last week a bunch of Illustration and Animation Kids took a trip down to Southern Utah on a painting/sketching trip.  We hit Zion National Park, Kolob Canyon and a tiny bit of Bryce Canyon.  In short it was wicked cool.
Here are some of the sketch paintings I did (you don't get to see the big mistakes.)  These were all done in gouache on paper and board.  None of them were bigger than about 8 inches on the longest side.

A black and white study of some cool rocks.


The circus came to town briefly and lent me it's color scheme for this one.

Most beautiful rocks I saw on the whole trip.  There were more colors on them than I knew what to do with.

This last one is my favorite.  It's the view of a ridge from a ghost town called Grafton.  I had never been to a ghost town before but the place had all these really cool old abandoned buildings.  With all these buildings around I decided to paint something that was at least 30 miles away.  Just silly.