White Sands New Mexico #1
by Marilyn Smith
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15.000 x 12.000 inches
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Title
White Sands New Mexico #1
Artist
Marilyn Smith
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
One of the world's natural wonders is the White Sands National Monument located between Alamogordo and Las Cruces, New Mexico. The giant dunes are made up of sparkling white gypsum that covers nearly 300 square miles. This Tularosa Basin in the Chihuahuan Desert is the largest gypsum dune field in the world. Rain and snow in the mountains dissolve gypsum from the rocks and carry it into the Basin where it eventually breaks down into sand-size particles. When they are light enough the wind will move them around and create a rippling sand dune. Snow plows are used to keep the road open in the park and even then, it is hard to keep up with the constantly moving dunes. The picnic areas have to be relocated periodically and the park road has changed in shape and size many times over the years.
This watercolor on canvas paper was painted from photographs I took while visiting the park.
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January 31st, 2022
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Comments (17)
Marilyn Smith
What a nice surprise to see the note from Randy about the Best of the Best feature in Wisconsin Flowers And Scenery! Thank you for that honor and thanks so much to everyone that has commented on this piece!
Carolyn Rosenberger
Congratulations on your Best of the Best feature in WF&S group. Beautiful work! L&F
Gary F Richards
Spectacular composition, lighting, shading, colors and artwork! Congratulations on your very deserving Best of the Best Feature! F/L
Rick Hansen
Congratulations on your Best of the Best homepage Feature in Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery! L/F
Jennifer Jenson
Congratulations on your Best of the Best homepage Feature in Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery! Gorgeous work!
Donna Kennedy
Beautiful color and detail Marilyn! Congratulations on your special Best of the Best Homepage Feature in Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery!...L/F
Randy Rosenberger
CONGRATULATION for being chosen as one of our “Best of the Best” artists for this 14 day round on our homepage. It is an honor for me to promote your beautiful pieces of artwork. You are to be highly commended for your talents in the works you have submitted to me for featuring. With this quality of artwork that I love, I will continue to do my best to feature and promote each of you as a fine artist within our WFS group. Happy sales till we meet again!
Susan Buscho
Congratulations! Your beautiful image has been featured on 2/6/2022 in the group Old Masters - Painters and Traditional Arts! Please visit the group’s site and archive your feature in the Discussion thread. You will notice there is a new discussion thread for January and February. Please use that one to respond. Thank you.
Taphath Foose
Beautiful work, Marilyn!!! Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Beautiful Watercolors"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" Discussion!!
Jane M Dahl
Another gorgeous work of art. This is really beautiful. Featured in American Desert Southwest.
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