Mojave Desert, California
Merilee Mitchell
Desert Gold 3
Mojave Desert, California
Desert Water 2
Tecopa, California
The Blue Mountain
There is a mountain in the desert right on the edge of Death Valley that I like to stare at. It’s always blue. Whether it’s sunny or raining, dawn, dusk or when sand is blowing, it’s some shade of blue. Usually cerulean blue. I like it’s shape. I call it The Blue Mountain. It’s like my friend.
The Blue Mountain
Oil on board
12″ x 24″
Desert Water
Mojave Desert, California
Wordless Wednesday
Hawk with Grasshopper
I got to watch a large hawk catch and then swallow a grasshopper today in my backyard. It was kinda wild.
Calabasas, California
Waterways with Sheepshead Mountain
A painting started during the rains from early January in the Mojave Desert.
Oil on Canvas
18″ x 24″
The Waterways
There is a place in the desert where I like to go every time I am there. I call it The Waterways. It’s an area where, when there is water from rains, it collects in long, undulating, depressions in the mud. When the mud is dry, the waterways are white and salty, with cracks in the mud surface. But when there is rain, the water collects in the depressions, reflecting the sky and turning the whole are into a magical spectacle. I call them The Waterways. Earlier this month, they were filled with water from day after day of rain.
Oil on Linen Board
16″ x 20″
Captured in the wild, refined in the studio.
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