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Feb 16, 2018
Media: Oil Sketch on Centurian Oil Primed Panel
Size: 5x7 in
Towers seem to be the popular architectural form taken by the Ancestral Puebloans in the Hovenweep area, northwest of Sleeping Ute Mountain. Coming from the northwest through the canyon of Montezuma Creek, as I did, and then climbing out onto Cajon Mesa, which looks like a wide, rolling sagebrush plain, sloping up to the northeast, it is surprising when you come across the canyons cutting into this landscape. It must have been even more surprising for the first Europeans to come across the ancient ruins within these canyons. The main unit of Hovenweep is in Utah, consisting of a series of buildings spaced out along the rim of, or within, Little Ruin Canyon. A two mile circular walk takes you past these ruins, many of which are the remains of towers, two or more stories high, hard by the cliff edge, or in the canyon perched on large boulders. If your time is limited, this is the unit to see, and the visitor center (closed in Winter), and campground are here. Water for your water bottles is found here all year around in the picnic area near the visitors center. I took this circular walk on the Tuesday afternoon, as well as the Wednesday morning to get different lighting on the buildings. Pigments used in the painting are … Imprimatura: Rublev Ercolano Red; Drawing: W&N Cobalt Blue; Pigments: W&N Cobalt, Cerulean and Ultramarine Deep Blues, Cadmiums Yellow Pale and Orange; Rublev: Ercolano Red, Purple Ochre, Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre, Ceruse, Lead White #2. For more check out my blog at www.StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com
Towers seem to be the popular architectural form taken by the Ancestral Puebloans in the Hovenweep area, northwest of Sleeping Ute Mountain. Coming from the northwest through the canyon of Montezuma Creek, as I did, and then climbing out onto Cajon Mesa, which looks like a wide, rolling sagebrush plain, sloping up to the northeast, it is surprising when you come across the canyons cutting into this landscape. It must have been even more surprising for the first Europeans to come across the ancient ruins within these canyons. The main unit of Hovenweep is in Utah, consisting of a series of buildings spaced out along the rim of, or within, Little Ruin Canyon. A two mile circular walk takes you past these ruins, many of which are the remains of towers, two or more stories high, hard by the cliff edge, or in the canyon perched on large boulders. If your time is limited, this is the unit to see, and the visitor center (closed in Winter), and campground are here. Water for your water bottles is found here all year around in the picnic area near the visitors center. I took this circular walk on the Tuesday afternoon, as well as the Wednesday morning to get different lighting on the buildings. Pigments used in the painting are … Imprimatura: Rublev Ercolano Red; Drawing: W&N Cobalt Blue; Pigments: W&N Cobalt, Cerulean and Ultramarine Deep Blues, Cadmiums Yellow Pale and Orange; Rublev: Ercolano Red, Purple Ochre, Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre, Ceruse, Lead White #2. For more check out my blog at www.StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com
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