GALLERY02
New Mexico
Chaco Canyon, NM
"Sand Paintings" of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1971. The above three are mixed media: native NM sand, glue, and acrylic on 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" illustration board. Referenced from 35mm slides taken on a visit to Chaco Canyon NM in 1971.
Below are photos by others of similar buildings, showing the amazing cut stone work of these ancient people, the Anasazi, who disappeared from the valley around 1200 A.D. Note that the sky in NM is often darker blue than elsewhere, because of the altitude. --
I found a recent photo of that "Hopi doorway" (center picture). Tradition says that the "T" shaped door was designed to admit a person carrying a bundle of firewood on his back. By 2014, part of the bottom had been repaired/filled in, destroying the intriguing view seen here 40 years ago.
Below are photos by others of similar buildings, showing the amazing cut stone work of these ancient people, the Anasazi, who disappeared from the valley around 1200 A.D. Note that the sky in NM is often darker blue than elsewhere, because of the altitude. --
I found a recent photo of that "Hopi doorway" (center picture). Tradition says that the "T" shaped door was designed to admit a person carrying a bundle of firewood on his back. By 2014, part of the bottom had been repaired/filled in, destroying the intriguing view seen here 40 years ago.
Southern California
Other Places, USA
This painting has sort of a convoluted history. I painted it for a family member's birthday, using a photo they had. We thought it pictured somewhere in Southeast Asia where family members had been stationed in the military. One had stored an extra-long sunset photo in my computer, not without some difficulty. It turns out that THAT sunset is the one eventually used as header for this page and web site. It was not this one.
So what is this? Someone had downloaded it from the Internet, years ago. It is customary when painting from a reference photo, to credit the original photographer. So with all due diligence I went looking for the photo credit. I was surprised to see HUNDREDS of similar photos, because the subject is a very popular one. This turns out to be a view of Haystack Rock and its sisters at Cannon Beach in Oregon, near Astoria. This beach is not only superbly photogenic, especially at sunset, but Astoria is also the location where the "Goonies" film was shot. (You can see views of Cannon Beach in the final scenes of the film.) I have now Googled hundreds and hundreds of photos with the same color scheme and similar configurations of rocks, but nowhere have I found the exact photo which inspired the above. Still looking.
So what is this? Someone had downloaded it from the Internet, years ago. It is customary when painting from a reference photo, to credit the original photographer. So with all due diligence I went looking for the photo credit. I was surprised to see HUNDREDS of similar photos, because the subject is a very popular one. This turns out to be a view of Haystack Rock and its sisters at Cannon Beach in Oregon, near Astoria. This beach is not only superbly photogenic, especially at sunset, but Astoria is also the location where the "Goonies" film was shot. (You can see views of Cannon Beach in the final scenes of the film.) I have now Googled hundreds and hundreds of photos with the same color scheme and similar configurations of rocks, but nowhere have I found the exact photo which inspired the above. Still looking.
Waterfall, Paradise River, Mt. Rainier, WA. Adapted from photos
by Ross Martin and S. Dzieciatkowski in Views: Washington, 2008.
Watercolor, 8 x 10
A little something different. The above is called "Walden" because of that little white dot toward the upper left, on the small pond.
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