Colors of Colorado
by Steve Henderson
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Title
Colors of Colorado
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Paper
Description
It’s the type of place you miss.
Which is unfortunate, because it is the type of place that is worth discovering.
Colors of Colorado celebrates a wild, open landscape at the Droney Gulch State Wilderness area in central Colorado, near Salida. It is accessed by a forgotten little highway stop-off, one consisting of a picnic table or two, as if the state planners themselves figured nobody would ever stop there.
The view looks Northeast toward Cameron Mountain and Jack Rabbit Hill, far in the distance. A little path in the right foreground of the painting invites pedestrians to stroll through the landscape, feel the cool alpine breeze brush through their hair, walk away from the busy highway noise filled with people who are heading to the more expected, traditional, and overcrowded tourist spots in a state that has astonishing landscape after astonishing landscape.
But as with any tourist attraction, many of those astonishing landscapes are filled with, well, tourists, the sheer number of which detracts from the sense of wildness, wilderness, pristine and untamed beauty. As in life itself, it’s when you’re willing to pull away from the crowd that you find things that the crowd would flock to if only it were told to do so.
Because That’s. What. We. Do.
We do what we’re told. We go where the guidebooks, the TV shows, the state tourist offices, the Chambers of Commerce, tell us to go, and in limiting ourselves to the expected thing, the expected places, we do not discover the unusual thing, the unusual places.
Our journey, and our lives, begin to look like copies of others, rather than like journeys and lives unique to who and what we are.
Stop the car. Sit on one of the picnic tables for a minute to take in the view. Then take the path – the path that few take – into a place worth being.
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Comments (44)
Taphath Foose
Beautiful work, Steve!!! CONGRATULATIONS, your work is featured in "For the ART of It"!! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" discussion thread and any other thread that is fitting!! 😊
Robyn King
Congratulations Steve your beautiful artwork is being featured in Images That Inspire Meditation:-) Please take a moment to add your wonderful art to our archives in the message area and have a fantastic day!
Jenny Revitz Soper
BRAVO! Your artwork has earned a FEATURE on the homepage of the FAA Artist Group No Place Like Home, 11/16/2022! You may also post it in the Group's Features discussion thread and any other thread that fits!
Nancy Carol Photography
Well done! Excellent and thank you for sharing with us your wonderful work of art that has been proudly presented on the Home Page of the group, 'ART FOR PASSION - PASSION FOR ART'. If you wish, you may archive it permanently or promote it further in the Discussions Tabs titled, "Oct Nov Dec 2022 Features."
Beryl Jasper
Congrats!! Your amazing artwork has been featured in THE PAINTING LOGGIA group. You may promote your artwork in “Features 2022- Archive” and any other discussion in which the artwork fits. Thanks for sharing.
Randy Rosenberger
Your excellence in your submission of this work is worthy of special recognition, and I am seeing to it, that this happens in the WFS group. I am so happy to have you as an active member of our family of friends and fine artists, who support one another by comments, likes, faves, sharing, etc. Thanks for all your efforts to make our group so special by having a fine artist like yourself among many other fine artists that make our group so special.
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