Autumn walk in the park

On Saturday afternoon, after getting the radiator fixed, I decided to drive somewhere.

I wanted to collect some fall leaves, to draw and paint them.

I decided to go to the Central Park in Huntington Beach, not far from the beach.

(There was the Air Show at the beach itself, so I knew I didn't want to go there.)


The Central Park has a lot of Eucalyptus trees.

They don't turn colors in the fall, and their leaves are small and boring.

This kind of Eucalyptus also sheds a lot of bark.

The bark was interesting and had me wondering what could be done with it.

I was there for leaves, though, not bark.


There were some trees that had a few colorful fall leaves.

However, the rest of the park was still very green.

It didn't really feel like autumn.

I saw a great big spider, next to the moon:

These evergreen trees looked mysterious:

It was a nice walk.
It would have been great if the Library was open. They sell books and magazines for 25 cents.

These are the leaves I gathered:

I started to make some watercolor sketches in my journal.

I outlined the veins in watercolor pencil.

They didn't come out the way I was hoping.

I drew these in a similar way:

Still, it's an improvement over doing almost no drawing all year!