Landscape painting in Capitol Reef

Last year we spent a week in southern Utah, starting in Zion national park, passing through Bryce canyon and winding up at Capitol Reef national park. That southern Utah landscape is just as stunning as everybody says, I could have happily spent months there, just working on plein air paintings.

Our itinerary paralleled a French tour group who'd all rented Harley Davidsons and dressed like they were auditioning for Easy Rider. They'd clearly come for an authentic western American adventure, and with typical French flair were dressing the part. It was delightful, if slightly comic.

This is the one painting I have to show for it, it's done in oils on linen, and it's 18" by 36". It's of the Goosenecks in Capitol Reef (a deep sinuous canyon carved by Sulphur Creek).


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Here's a crop to just the painting:

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