Purple Dusk Settles on the Painted Desert
by Ellen Levinson
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Title
Purple Dusk Settles on the Painted Desert
Artist
Ellen Levinson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
This watercolor is adapted from a photo I took while visiting the Painted Desert about 20 years ago. Painted Desert was done from a photograph taken on one of my trips to the desert southwest. I used Masa paper because of the texture and grain which I felt would enhance overall effect of this abstract impressionist watercolor painting..
"The Painted Desert is a United States desert of badlands in the Four Corners area[2] from the Grand Canyon National Park into the Petrified Forest National Park. Much of the area within the Petrified Forest National Park is protected as the Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area.[3] Much of the Painted Desert region is within the Navajo Nation (Navajo and Hopi have lived in the region for at least 500 and 1,000 years, respectively.)"
"The desert is composed of stratified layers of easily erodible siltstone, mudstone, and shale of the Triassic Chinle Formation. These fine grained rock layers contain abundant iron and manganese compounds which provide the pigments for the various colors of the region. Thin resistant lacustrine limestone layers and volcanic flows cap the mesas. Numerous layers of silicic volcanic ash occur in the Chinle and provide the silica for the petrified logs of the area. The erosion of these layers has resulted in the formation of the badlands topography of the region.[4][5][6]
In the southern portions of the desert the remains of a Triassic period coniferous forest have fossilized over millions of years. Wind, water and soil erosion continue to change the face of the landscape by shifting sediment and exposing layers of the Chinle Formation. An assortment of fossilized prehistoric plants and animals are found in the region, as well as dinosaur tracks and the evidence of early human habitation."
from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_Desert,_Arizona
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