Desert(ed) Village
9"x12"![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdWXZvzbyRQkYByEuOb-W1oF8qK3J12cJp3KxLhnc0qRiqnYpEsJSFT3mw1MKBipgoG6Ba8fUd5ay1Zc4rNaiMe0GKTLpN_Iwyjv7ZBGQZFH_IACtyxVkcjklBgcHiSAxo2Lw_WA/s320/desert-original.jpg)
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I'm taking a canvas painting class, two lessons so far, and this is what I started working on yesterday. It's from a Nat. Geo. photo (top) of a village built for Bedouins in Yemen, kind of the Arab equivalent of making Indians live on reservations. They didn't go for it and this ruin was the result. I like the quasi- abstract, geometric and haunting look of the image, though mixing the odd palette has been a bit of a challenge.