Kathleen Strauss/The Daily Campus
There are 27 sketchbooks on display in the Hawn Gallery in the Hamon Arts Library. Some are big and some are small.
They are turned to pages depicting mesas and mountains, valleys and oceans, trees that shoot out of the rock-like fingers clutching at heaven.
They depict immense landscapes and impossible skies lit by thousands of lights. The new exhibit, “Drawn from Nature,” is a showcase of landscape sketches and watercolors by Scott Winterrowd.
Winterrowd is currently a museum educator at the Meadows Museum. The exhibit includes his artistic interpretations of different sites in Big Bend, Yosemite, Kings Canyon, New Mexico, Colorado and Los Angeles.
The exhibit will run through May 13. Winterrowd began painting seriously in 1993.
“I did slow down a lot between 1998 and 2004 mostly because I was focused on my work in museums at that time,” Winterrowd said. “After I moved to California in 2005 I really began to paint and draw a lot