On October 18, 2008 the City of Santa Fe is hosting a paint-out on Canyon Road to celebrate the history of art making on Canyon Road. I've been going around looking at my plien-aire works to hang a show at Aura Dez Fine Art for that weekend. I painted this maybe a year-an-half ago at the rest area pull off on the road to Taos. I joined a number of other painters that were all focused on the Rio Grand Gorge that opened up on the other side of the road. It was a stormy afternoon and I was working on a larger than normal canvas...had to hold on when the wind picked up. I managed to paint this completely on site and only needed to do a few touch ups where it got smugged during the drive home.

The Rio Grand Gorge 20" x 20" oil on canvas plien-aire