Downtown Phoenix Sunset 5

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Painting these smooth curves, reminds me of ice skating, practicing basic figures. The more simple the shape, the more difficult the execution. Small flaws that would be lost in a more complicated scenario, find no place to hide among the clean lines of this painting.

This is the fifth in a series of paintings taken from my last visit to Phoenix, Arizona. Lodging at a downtown hotel and spending more time than usual in an urban landscape, I came away with rooftop images from a desert city.

- Nancy Boudreau

This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat, and as with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

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Cave Creek Boulders

In the Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area, Dragonfly Trail wanders along Cave Creek before heading up and away into the desert foothills. "Riparian habitat" - fancy words. No words are needed to understand that this is a sacred place to any thing that needs water to live - especially in the desert. As I record the scene, the creek flows tamely, surrounded by evidence of it's power: rounded, tumbled boulders, sandbars of finely pounded rock, willows lying flat in the creekbed, refusing to be drowned, new growth springing straight upward, vertically, from their horizontal trunks. The cottonwoods are lush green, tangles of tinder-dry flotsam caught in their branches six feet above my head. I can only imagine the roots that anchor these giants against such a flood. - Nancy Boudreau

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This painting is about 5 x 7 inches and is acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream colored mat, and as with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated.

For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com

Peaks Above Apache Trail

Backlit peaks towering above the Apache Trail, just south of where it crosses Fish Creek in the Superstition Mountains, all part of the larger Tonto National Forest.
- Nancy Boudreau

This painting is about 5" x 7" acrylic on gessoed mat board, protected in a cream-colored mat. As with all these little studies, the text above is handwritten on the back of the painting, which is also signed and dated. For comments and queries, please feel free to contact me directly at: nb@nboudreau.com