Golden Rio

Along the River Road through Big Bend Ranch State Park, sunset seeps into every blade of grass and wisp of cloud, painting the Rio Grande in molten gold. This is a color study using only reds, oranges and yellows to tell the story of sun setting in the borderlands.

FYI This study was inspired by artist Alain Picard's online exercise in using only colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel. My reference photo was the same one I used many years ago for a large pastel, "The River Road". It's fun to play and experiment like this.