 Spent a solid month trekkin about the West coast and sat on my duff for a goodly number of hours. It’s the sort of thing that puts demands onyer fashion choices, ie comfy britches with a properly deep inseam and good travel shoes.
  
 
The lanscapes below were draw from a bus. The one with the birds on the telephone lines was a 15 minute sketch at a rest stop in southern Oregon, the others were enroute at 60 mph.
 All drawings executed with ink, fountain pens, Pitt Artist Brush Pens, Platinum Carbon Ink, in various hbooks, Rhodia, Moleskine, Stillman & Birn, Tomoe River Paper.
I always enjoy reading your posts and reviewing your sketches. They are always so raw and so real. It’s simply amazing with a limited set of tools can produce.
Much appreciated!
Great sketches as always Don….so real life in big cities!
Happy Holidays to you!
I spent some serious bus time when I was a kid of 12-14 (in the 60s). Every Summer I’d get sent off to stay a couple weeks with Nanny (grandma) in Porterville CA. Those trips started from Orange CA and took all of a very long day (and then some if I happened to miss a connection). I was given about 20 bucks to last me the entire time but spent almost every dime on comic books, Tarzan and Pellucidar paperbacks and candy and strawberry shakes before I even made it to Fresno (or was that Visalia?). I met some cool people with great stories along the way. My sketchy memory recalls that the drivers were kinda “assigned” to look after me along the way.
Later in life (15-16) I used to ride the bus from Pomona to North Hollywood, via the huge Spring Street Station in L.A. ($1.25) to visit the incredible book stores that sold old comics and paperbacks along Hollywood Blvd. Can you imagine a copy of Action Comics #1 for $225.00 (might as well have been a million at the time for a snot-nosed 15 year old!). Your sketches bring all that was unique and narley about bus travel flooding back. Keep up the great work.
Lou
Each drawing tells a story of each person’s uniqueness…as ausual. Love it.