Apparently there used to be a lion farm near Pasadena in the '20s and '30's that was "Disneyland before Disneyland". It would be for me too if I could ride a lion :)
Still in a major artistic funk.. hopefully posting this old stuff will get the ball rolling in my mind:
A few of the better pages from my sketchbook from Viscom-
Ghosts of the Mesa- I was trying to convert a black and white sketch into a fully rendered painting, but ended up losing the essence of the whole thing.