Circle of Power

by Ellen Levinson

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14.500 x 10.500 inches

Title

Circle of Power

Artist

Ellen Levinson

Medium

Painting - Watercolor

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Semi -circular falls draw the viewer into them - imagine the roar of the water as it cascades over the rocks - picture yourself sitting on one the rocks at the base of the falls being splashed by the cool rejuvenating spray as red tail hawks spiral overhead. Bask in the serenity and the healing power of this tranquil scene.
I came up with the title for this watercolor while thinking of the power of the water crashing on the rocks (and remembering what it was like visiting Niagara Falls) - it reminded me of a line in the movie "Thunderheart" when Maggie stated that power isn't in a piece of paper but in the river.....

"Waterfalls are commonly formed when a river is young.[1] At these times the channel is often narrow and deep. When the river courses over resistant bedrock, erosion happens slowly, while downstream the erosion occurs more rapidly.[1][2] As the watercourse increases its velocity at the edge of the waterfall, it plucks material from the riverbed. Whirlpools created in the turbulence as well as sand and stones carried by the watercourse increase the erosion capacity.[1] This causes the waterfall to carve deeper into the bed and to recede upstream. Often over time, the waterfall will recede back to form a canyon or gorge downstream as it recedes upstream, and it will carve deeper into the ridge above it.[3] The rate of retreat for a waterfall can be as high as one and half meters per year.[1]
Often, the rock stratum just below the more resistant shelf will be of a softer type, meaning that undercutting due to splashback will occur here to form a shallow cave-like formation known as a rock shelter under and behind the waterfall. Eventually, the outcropping, more resistant cap rock will collapse under pressure to add blocks of rock to the base of the waterfall. These blocks of rock are then broken down into smaller boulders by attrition as they collide with each other, and they also erode the base of the waterfall by abrasion, creating a deep plunge pool or gorge.
Streams become wider and shallower just above waterfalls due to flowing over the rock shelf, and there is usually a deep area just below the waterfall because of the kinetic energy of the water hitting the bottom. Waterfalls normally form in a rocky area due to erosion. After a long period of being fully formed, the water falling off the ledge will retreat, causing a horizontal pit parallel to the waterfall wall. Eventually, as the pit grows deeper, the waterfall collapses to be replaced by a steeply sloping stretch of river bed.[1] In addition to gradual processes such as erosion, earth movement caused by earthquakes or landslides or volcanoes can cause a differential in land heights which interfere with the natural course of a water flow, and result in waterfalls.
A river sometimes flows over a large step in the rocks that may have been formed by a fault line. Waterfalls can occur along the edge of a glacial trough, where a stream or river flowing into a glacier continues to flow into a valley after the glacier has receded or melted. The large waterfalls in Yosemite Valley are examples of this phenomenon, which is referred to as a hanging valley. Another reason hanging valleys may form is where two rivers join and one is flowing faster than the other.[1] Waterfalls can be grouped into ten broad classes based on the average volume of water present on the fall (which depends on both the waterfall's average flow and its height) using a logarithmic scale. Class 10 waterfalls include Niagara Falls, Paulo Afonso Falls and Khone Falls."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall

This is a wonderfully calming painting and would be appropriate for a living room,dining room,bedroom,hallway,study,office,yoga studio or meditation room,country inn,bed & breakfast,or restaurant.

� 2013 Ellen Lynn Levinson (Ellyn)
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June 20th, 2013

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