Colorado River

Colorado River, Acrylic on Paper, 2016

The very first thing I painted when I arrived in Arizona. The Colorado River kinda took me by surprise honestly. I was just driving through and bam, there it was. Like any good tourist, I stopped and checked it out.

I had never seen anything like it, a green snaking path of water cutting right through the desert. After so much brown and red, the green was a shock to my eyes. I was extremely impressed with the canyon that it cut through the red rock. The Grand Canyon itself, located just a bit up this same river, was not something I was yet acquainted with.

I don’t know if I quite captured the scale of it here, or the colors. But in person it was definitely a beautiful sight. Not Grand Canyon beautiful, but still beautiful.

Here are some pictures I took while being a goobery tourist, the first one is the one the painting is done from, sort of:

Me being a dork:

The Navajo Bridge, which just kind of comes up out of nowhere along the drive, from which I took all my photos:

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