Print available at www.jonathanmachen.art My friend Stephen Shankland led a group of our respective families to this location, a place he described as ‘The most Beautiful Spot in the Universe’, a remote mesa near Los Alamos, a place from which one can both look towards…

I was 20 when I did this drawing, having used my bike to get to Chautauqua Park in Boulder, where I did this pleinair drawing, direct in pen-and-ink. 

I have been coming to Santa Fe for years to sketch the interesting architecture. In the past, I have done panoramas by linking individual sheets of paper together to get a bigger drawing. I began using much larger pieces of paper around this time. This…