San Jose streetscape 1998

For someone living here all or even some of their life, this is a normal street with the view you see every day. But for someone like me, growing up in chilly hilly Massachusetts, ordinary California was exotic and colorful. A blue mountain in the distance! Spanish style houses with red tile roofs! And palm trees! I had to draw them, just as I had in Florida. Would a Californian feel the same way about the Northeast? In fact, they would as I remember the remarks of Californians at Harvard.

Brown ink and colored pencil on sketchbook page, 4" x 4", July 10, 1998.