Grand View Sunrise

Grand View Sunrise is a 18X24 acrylic which was based on a photo taken at the Grand View in Grand Canyon in the middle of winter. It was interesting doing this painting because the photo did some things to the scene that may or may not have been in the original scene due to the light and extreme brightness of the sun. I included some of these aspects in the painting because I wanted to capture the brightness of the morning sun breaking through the snow.