Including more than 2,000 acres, Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area in Cave Creek, Arizona, inspires visitors with romantic trail names, like Fairy Duster, Elephant Mountain and Dragonfly Trails, intimate views of commanding saguaros and fluttering yellow cottonwoods, together with a delightful display of human-sized Sonoran flora and fauna. It’s atmosphere is something special, barely moved with blue or violet breezes, feeling haunted, but not fearfully, beyond the cacti just defending themselves. Painted en plein air on a couple of February afternoons, looking northeast, in acrylics on canvas taped to a birch board. I want to go back and I will.
Including more than 2,000 acres, Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area in Cave Creek, Arizona, inspires visitors with romantic trail names, like Fairy Duster, Elephant Mountain and Dragonfly Trails, intimate views of commanding saguaros and fluttering yellow cottonwoods, together with a delightful display of human-sized Sonoran flora and fauna. It’s atmosphere is something special, barely moved with blue or violet breezes, feeling haunted, but not fearfully, beyond the cacti just defending themselves. Painted en plein air on a couple of February afternoons, looking northeast, in acrylics on canvas taped to a birch board. I want to go back and I will.
#166 - Acrylic on board
Painting: 8” x 10”
In Canvas: 11.5” x 13.5”
