May “Sotol, Big Bend”
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"Sotol, Big Bend"
Last month I went to Big Bend National Park and was mesmerized by the haunting, barren west Texas landscape. The starkly beautiful desert landscape was full of all sorts of fascinating succulent plants; they looked so jurassic I kept expecting a brontosaurus to bend down and nibble on one of their giant stalks! In the middle of this desert there’s an isolated mountain range, the Chisos, that supports an alpine ecosystem. It’s pretty wild to see a prickly pear and pine tree growing side by side. The drive up to the Chisos Basin is peppered with fields of sotol plants, whose stalks can reach 9 to 15 feet high! They were the inspiration for “Sotol, Big Bend” .
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hot off the press!
I decided on a soft copper brown and hand coloring with watercolor
