Painting the Grand Canyon
Painting the Grand Canyon A cavernous hole that constitutes itself on this planet is known as the Grand Canyon. Each year many a caravan, including Mike Brady and his Brunch (minus the r, and plus an Alice) venture to this southwestern retreat to explore the crags and caves of the big GC. In honor of the subject itself, I'll intersperse relevant sentences from the chapter "Grand Canyon", excerpted from Our National Parks, a book written by Nelson Beecher Keyes in 1958, with some action shots from the watercolor painting I did there. Main Supplies. I like tubes just as much as cakes. Couple bottles of water. Temperature was a pleasant 85 so didn't need too too much water to carry in there. "In 1540 a large party of Spaniards, greedy for easy wealth, pressed up out of Mexico intent upon locating and seizing the seven mythical cities of Cibola, supposedly built of pure gold. While this was to prove a most disappointing and ...