Mesa Verde: Broken Wall by auntietk
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
We spent a couple of days in Cortez, Colorado and visited Mesa Verde.
Black and white seems to work best for this sort of thing, since in color it's exactly the same, only brown. It's somehow less dramatic in brown.
Meh ... I'll post some of each as I go along and let you decide. :P

Comments (31)
I'm always personally happy when you post large (I always zoom), and in black and white too. This really is grays and blacks, and the starkness is very powerful against all that mysterious background (where we can only make out hints of form, just hints). The sun-bleached grays make it seem abandoned, forlorn, mysterious. And the cracks stand out so much better, in blacks and grays. And the shadow cast by the doorway (arch, lintel, whatever it is) is so deeply dark, almost pitch black in spots---that it makes this look as if it emerged out of a deep cave. Also, the light opens up on the right, as we move across the image, there's a flow, to me, from left to right, it moves...I really like what you did by desaturating it, I like the fact that these forms are swallowed on all sides by a deep darkness; and they sit there like some biblical temple, long abandoned and long bleached by the harshness around them. And see, for me, these aren't choices just because the color didn't work, but because the blacks and grays work so beautifully by themselves. I know you chose the latter because the color version was just too repetitive (in hue, etc), but once in the blacks and grays 'found' you, you found a language in them that was true to itself as it sings all on its own. That's how I feel desaturation, at least. Your result was whole by itself, in any case. And it's great seeing it so looming and consuming, a big stark vision in the desert...