Landscape IV (28x20")

 Note: This item is part of the exclusive Studio Sale. Ink on light beige cotton paper. Signed and dated by Julia. Kingman, Arizona II – This is the first piece of the ink on paper landscape series that I made on the larger size paper. It felt like freedom and inspired me to keep going with these soaring, fleeting impressions. The Arizona landscape in Kingman on Route 66, with its pink mountains, dry grasses and dotty shrubs felt like joy and calm to me. These 2021 landscape drawings are drawn later as I remember the impressions of the landscape during a 2020 road trip with my husband. We drove across country when we moved from California to New England. This was during the beginning COVID, as so many of us were left unable to afford city living and opted to move to the country or closer to family. I remember distinctly we left Los Angeles during the week of a wildfire... Wildfire smoke that itched our throats and that orange hazy sky was clouding up as we packed our last boxes into th