First Light South Rim

This is a studio painting done from plein air studies and digital images at the south rim of the grand canyon.  It was a difficult task to do a larger painting from small studies but I loved the view which was very early on sunny morning on the south rim and I could not let it pass.  A view like this only lasts a few minutes so you can imagine how hard it was to do the plein air study on an 8" x 10" linen panel!