I love this hour in the desert, when the light goes soft and strange all at once. The sun's already dropped behind the ridge, the sky is doing that slow fade from rose to violet, and for a few minutes every mountain and shrub turns a color it isn't during the day — the peaks go lavender and teal, the hillsides deep plum and gold. It's not a real place, just that particular kind of evening I keep chasing in paint: sagebrush and juniper dotting the slopes, cacti holding the foreground, and that last band of pink light lingering along the horizon like a blessing before the dark comes in.
Painted in gouache on Strathmore Watercolor 400 Series cold press paper, 12 x 6 inches. Signed by the artist. Unframed.
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Original gouache painting by Elizabeth Allen
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This one started with the mesa. I painted that rust-and-lavender wall of rock rising on the horizon first, and let the rest of the desert grow out from there — the scrubby juniper, the sagebrush catching a little wind, the cholla tucked in among the stones. It's not a single place I could point to on a map, but a Southwest landscape stitched together from the high desert country I keep coming back to in my head: big sky, soft clouds, that particular pink-orange cast the ground takes on in afternoon light.
Painted in gouache on Strathmore Watercolor 400 Series cold press paper, 12 x 6 inches. Signed by the artist. Unframed.
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Original gouache painting by Elizabeth Allen
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I took this photo in Wimberley, Texas, one summer — a golden-cheeked warbler who decided I was just as interesting as anything else in those cedar hills. He hung around, tilted his head, and looked at me with an expression that said plainly: who are you, and why are you here? I've never forgotten that feeling of being studied by something small and wild. This painting is my answer to him.
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Original acrylic painting by Beth Allen
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Inspired by the native birds of the Texas Hill Country
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There's something about a marsh that holds its breath. This whooping crane commands the frame the way it commands its territory — still, watchful, authoritative — yet somewhere just offstage, that raucous call is coiled and ready. The moodiness of the marsh is fully intentional here. This is a painting about quiet power, and the particular tension of a wild place that looks serene but never quite is.
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Original acrylic painting by Elizabeth Allen
Dimensions: 12” x 12”
Medium: Acrylic on birch panel
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This is the view I get to wake up to — my northeastern view, with a sweet neighbor couple's house anchored into the hillside and the junipers shaded behind the nearby hills. I painted it for that early light, the way the backside of the hills goes a soft, cool purple just before the sun crests their tops. Their rooftop anchors the whole scene, a bit of home among all that wild green and violet, and it felt right to name it after that steadiness and how my neighbor says the house makes her feel.
Painted in gouache on Strathmore Watercolor 400 Series cold press paper, 12 x 6 inches. Signed by the artist. Unframed.
Ships flat and well-protected. Message me with any questions about the piece.
Details:
Original gouache painting by Elizabeth Allen
Dimensions: 12” x 6” (unframed)
Signed by the artist