A move to the Texas panhandle several years ago brought with it a change of scenery and gave me the desire to record the beauty of the new landscape around me - the canyons, the wide open spaces and vast skies. Palo Duro Canyon, near Amarillo and Canyon, TX, has become one of my favorite places to paint in the great outdoors of Northwest Texas. I find that early morning and late afternoon in the canyon provide some of the most dramatic and beautiful lighting effects to be found anywhere. In the late afternoon, light rays from the descending sun hit the colorful layers of rock that comprise the Eastern canyon walls and cause them to glow in bright oranges and yellows. And at the close of the day, soft shadows cast by the Western canyon rim slowly but steadily draw the curtain on that evening's spectacular light show.
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