Art Blog

Another popular hike for experienced backpackers is the Narrows. Though if you hike from bottom up you can turn around whenever. Much of the hike is wading or swimming through the virgin river that runs through Zion canyon. The river is the trail so the hike varies in difficulty depending on the river’s flow. 

Established as a national park August 2, 1956 40 years after the United States, purchased from Denmark the group of islands formerly known as the Danish West Indies. St. Johns island was picked to host the virgin islands national park

Gateway Arch, the most controversial US National Park. Now I’m not big on arguing so let's just see what this park is about. It’s fairly new to being a national park established February 22nd 2018. But was previously the Jefferson Memorial And the Arch was built back in the 60s. The reason there is controversy over this park is that every US National park has a decent chunk of land and nature while Gateway Arch is the smallest of all with just under 200 acres. The next smallest Park,  would be Hot Springs, and that still has at least 5000...

Today we’re talking about YOSEMITE. This is a very special park for me as it was the first national park trip I planned in my adult life. Before I get into my adventure, I’d like to mention how I initially wanted to paint Yosemite for my map project but didn’t think I could make a scene fit in California's shape. It was shortly after I finished the 50 states series that a client commissioned this park painting and I found a way to make it fit. This scene is from tunnel view. Yosemite was the US third ever national park...

The Park was established Feb 26th 1917 and holds the record for being the 3rd largest US national park at over 6 Million acres and the record for being home to the largest mountain in North America.