Impressionistic Landscape Oil Painting - by Pam Holnback

Morning in Monte Vista
11" x 14" Oil
$295.00 + $10. s/h

This is another landscape from our trip in March to the Monte Vista Crane Festival.  I painted it after the trip from a photo.  I love the late winter colors of the grasses.  I'm sure that now it would be beautiful greens.  The area is full of marshes, so there's not a problem with lack of rain and dry, ochre grasses that we often have.

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Sandhill Crane by Pam Holnback

Sandhill Crane
6" x 6" Oil on panel
$100.00 + $10. s/h

I really wanted to see what the sandhill cranes from the Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge looked like close up.  That's pretty hard to do unless you have a very long lens, which I don't.  My lens is great for normal shots and it zooms quite a bit.  At the refuge there were photographers with lenses that looked to be about 12 inches long.

The sandhill cranes make a very deep rolling trumpet and rattling sound.  And when thousands of them are creating this cacophony of music, it's like an outdoor orchestra.  You can google "sandhill crane sounds" and hear them for yourself!  I did!