Antelope Springs

Here's another painting I did on our trip west. I painted this on a cholla cactus and sage covered hillside looking across the valley toward a small salt lake, with the dark wall of mountains behind. The place where I was painting is a local spring, where a few trees manage to survive, but instead of painting them I painted the scene across the valley. There is actually an earthquake fault along the base of the mountains which caused the uplift sometime in the past and cut off the valley from outside drainage. All the water now flows into the small lake which evaporates off, having no outlet. The sun was pretty bright even though it is still only spring.   Antelope Springs, 8 x 10, sold.