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Feb 2, 2018
Media: Oil Sketch on Pannelli Telati on fine cotton Panel
Size: 5x7 in
The first evening in the Valley of the Gods there was a very good Sunset. Facing south I watched the glowing colours silhouette the buttes and mesas of Monument Valley, on the horizon some twenty miles away. The formations in the Valley of the Gods caught the rays of the evening Sun, as the blue shadows gradually climbed up their flanks to finally extinguish the last of the rosy light. In the gloaming the odd headlight would appear on the distant highway coming from Mexican Hat, hidden from view in the folds of the Earth eleven miles distant. There was even one that dropped down the continuous curves of the Moki Dugway, a preposterous road that climbs 1700 feet to the top of the mesa bordering the Valley, leading eventually to Natural Bridges National Monument. Moki Dugway was built years ago to transport uranium ore down to a smelter (now gone), in Mexican Hat. Looking at those Cliffs, one would not think a road could be built up them, but those pesky highwaymen can do astonishing things when they’ve a mind to. The Pigments used in the painting: Imprimatura: Rublev Ercolano Red; Drawing: Rublev Ercolano Red; Pigments: W&N Cerulean, Cobalt & Ultramarine Deep Blues, Cadmiums Yellow Pale and Orange, Venetian Red; Rublev: Ercolano Red, Purple Ochre, Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre, Orange Molybdate, Lead White #2. For more check out my blog at www.StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com
The first evening in the Valley of the Gods there was a very good Sunset. Facing south I watched the glowing colours silhouette the buttes and mesas of Monument Valley, on the horizon some twenty miles away. The formations in the Valley of the Gods caught the rays of the evening Sun, as the blue shadows gradually climbed up their flanks to finally extinguish the last of the rosy light. In the gloaming the odd headlight would appear on the distant highway coming from Mexican Hat, hidden from view in the folds of the Earth eleven miles distant. There was even one that dropped down the continuous curves of the Moki Dugway, a preposterous road that climbs 1700 feet to the top of the mesa bordering the Valley, leading eventually to Natural Bridges National Monument. Moki Dugway was built years ago to transport uranium ore down to a smelter (now gone), in Mexican Hat. Looking at those Cliffs, one would not think a road could be built up them, but those pesky highwaymen can do astonishing things when they’ve a mind to. The Pigments used in the painting: Imprimatura: Rublev Ercolano Red; Drawing: Rublev Ercolano Red; Pigments: W&N Cerulean, Cobalt & Ultramarine Deep Blues, Cadmiums Yellow Pale and Orange, Venetian Red; Rublev: Ercolano Red, Purple Ochre, Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre, Orange Molybdate, Lead White #2. For more check out my blog at www.StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com
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