Personal Art Blog

Sharing the lessons I teach at the Artist Guild and the personal discoveries in my art.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Approaching Storm



Approaching Storm

6x8in  oil on canvas board   100.

The distant mesa turns really dark when the storms pass over.
A gloomy, tonal day makes for a real change in the sunny southwest.

 Mesa means table in Spanish and it is easy to see why the flat top
of the land formations would be called that.
 What is the difference between butte, mesa or plateau? They can all have flat tops.
 check it out   I love them all.

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Julie