For the 5th year, I will head out across the country, this time trekking down the middle, from the mountains to the Mississippi, over the Oglalla and amber waves of grain, to sketch and share craft and discoveries with a whole mess of folks. To follow my journey, go to: doncolleysroadtrip.com.
 
The trek began with an 8 hour layover at the Twin Cities airport and  a late arrival in gorgeous Bozeman. From there I made it to the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument. Go. Hallowed ground. The markers indicating where the combatants fell give and amazing sense of the raging and rambling nature of the battle. From there, Sheridan, Wyo, and a long bus ride to Fargo, where the biplane was drawn at the Fargo Air Museum. The West has to be experienced by bus by car and by train with frequent stops.
All drawings executed with various fountain pens, Lamy Accent, Graf Von Faber-Castell Classic Ebony, using Platinum Carbon ink, grease pencil, and a ide array of F-C Pitt Artist Brush Pens in several types of sketchbooks: Strathmore toned sketchbooks, Moleskine landscape formate watercolor sketchbook, Stillman & Birn Epsilon, Tomoe River Paper sketchbook, and a ledger book from the 1950’s.
Always enjoy and appreciate your art but today, wow, your first one here, Looking Toward Little Bighorn, is still sending chills through me. A road, a rough road, grass, rolling hills, clouds…and a shadow of the artist (?). Can you tell I try to draw vistas? And come nowhere near what you’ve done here! Keep it up, fella, and enjoy your trip. And thanks again for sharing your art.v
Thank you Annie, your words bolstered my day.
I don’t get to travel much and am so envious of your job Don. I love seeing all your drawings! It lets me experience some places familiar and some I hope to see one day. They are truly awesome!thanks for sharing your travels!
Deb
That floats my boat Deb to here they bring a little of the country and some of the wonder that I experience in my travels.
Enjoy your sketches and work. Thankyou! You rock,and are inspiring.
I never have the time to do large “finished” artwork and your amazing sketch books inspire me to sketch as much as possible and not worry about doing the bigger pieces. I just tell myself to just keep drawing every day.
Thank you for posting the detailed list of materials you use, especially what you use for whites.
Thanks for the comments Terry. It has been tough for me too, to push ambitious pieces to conclusion, I’ll get to those in time but till then, the sketchbooks fill that role and keep the craft sharp.