This is one of the paintings from Jan's and my trip out west this summer. We were at Canyon Village campground at Yellowstone national park for about a week and could have spent a year there just painting the falls. This painting is of the lower falls of the Yellowstone river which cuts through Yellowstone Canyon. It is an exhilarating challenge to paint waterfalls.  Difficult to capture, but I find them irresistable. I should have brought along an umbrella for the sun which, besides being very hot, made it difficult to key the painting. When the sun is shining directly on the canvas,  all the colors look bright but later when seeing the painting in almost any other light (which is never as bright as direct sunlight) I am dimayed at how dull my very bright painting looks. There wasn't much shade and it never seemed to be at the vantage points that were most interesting. There is a stone wall around this viewpoint and many of the lookout points along the canyon. On the other side of the wall, the ground inclines a short distance toward the canyon.  My back was right up against the wall to keep my painting in the small amount of shade cast by the wall. The painting was in my lap. Occasionally I would hear one of the many tourists standing on the other side of the wall behind and above me exclaim, "Look there's a person there," if they happened to look down and see me hunkered down there. We weren't supposed to be on the other side of that wall but none of the rangers saw me. One did see Jan though who was about forty feet away from me and he made her pack up her unfinished painting and get back on the trail at once: art be damned!

Price is for original unframed artwork.