Tejas Creek Experiment - 7

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Tejas Creek Experiment - 7

Artist

Joel Deutsch

Medium

Painting - Watercolor

Description

We had intended to do a fall hike up McKittrick Canyon, something I�ve wanted to do since our first visit to Guadalupe Mountains National Park several years earlier. We camped at Pine Creek for five nights, but we were way ahead of fall. So after a little more meandering around West Texas, still early for McKittrick�s Fall Colors, we headed to Dog Canyon for some high country camping. From Dog Canyon we struck out for McKittrick Canyon on the Tejas Trail. It was a glorious fall day! Every blade of grass, Sotol leaf and blossom took on a magic, golden glow from the bright sunlight filtered by high mountain air. We hiked thru maples flaming with reds and yellows and oaks that were just beginning to tinge yellow. These are colors that you don�t see along the Blue Ridge. Then we came to the first place where the trail crosses Tejas Trail. And, I hope to some degree this watercolor expresses how the first sight of this dry creek felt.

This isn�t the watercolor that I started to paint, but getting to this point has changed my thinking about what I want the watercolor to say. I think four of the previous six �practice pieces� are probably good enough to be signed and uploaded to my Sketchbook Gallery sooner or later. Now I need to take a breath and get back to the watercolor I started to paint and simplify.

Oh, by the way, about the time McKittrick Canyon�s colors should have been peaking forty mile an hour winds swept thru the park and postponed that hike for another time. Great scenery doesn�t come with a guarantee

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February 13th, 2015

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