reveal
acrylic on canvas
36x12"

original artwork: $ 1,296
reproductions starting at: $ 24

The story behind the artwork

The third painting in my Death Valley series, reveal, was inspired by something I saw while walking through a slot canyon in the Artist's Palette area of Death Valley National Park. The canyon walls were steep and a brownish red. Turn after turn the colors were relatively similar, until suddenly I came across what seemed to be the scene of a new incident. There was evidence of a large rock fall. A pile of rock debris was lying on the canyon floor. Directly above it was a discolored streak rising 60 feet to a visible hole which exposed a very different coloration of rock. It was pale and chalky, and this color peppered the trail from high on the canyon wall to the rock pile at my feet.
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