White Sands. Painting #73

White Sands is painting #73. Here we have a scene inspired by the White Sands of New Mexico. Way in the background you see distant mountains where you can merely make out their general shape. As we come closer, a mountain range gets closer and you can make out a little bit more detail but it still looks far away. Then in the foreground you see beachy white sand for miles with a some desert vegetation.

By the time I painted this one I’d been back from my trip to New Mexico for nearly 2 months. However, I really wanted to do a White Sands inspired painting. Since this is an original, I didn’t follow or use any Bob Ross video. There’s not much to it really.

Here’s a major tip if you ever want to paint a scene with a lot of sand or the like. It’s not unlike painting a snow scene. I’d advise putting a darker layer down first then putting the light color on top. The dark color gives you shadow color. I didn’t do that here so the super light color of the sand didn’t stand out with each layer. I wanted to make it really light like sugar white beach sand. However, in order to provide some depth, I had to darken it a lot more to try to get that depth in there. The mountains and everything else are great.

This is not my favorite original but I captured the essence of what I wanted. You may like it though. If you do, maybe you want to buy it. You can find it for sale in my Art Store. Let me know your thoughts. Everyone sees art differently. Check out the White Sands if you ever happen to make it out to that part of the country.

Happy Painting