Death Valley Sunset Youth T-Shirt

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A beautiful, soft sunset turns mountains in the distance wonderful shades of blue. This photograph, taken as we left Death Valley, has been digitally processed to give a painted finish adding to it's charm.
Death Valley is well known for extremes: it is North America's driest and hottest spot (with fewer than two inches/five centimeters of rainfall annually and a record high of 134°F), and has the lowest elevation on the continent—282 feet below sea level.
The valley is a graben, a geological term for a sunken fragment of the earth’s crust .The national park covers an area of about 3.4 million acres and offers many different landscapes, eroded rocks, colorful mudstone hills and canyons, luminous sand dunes, lush oases, and a 200-square-mile salt pan surrounded by mountains. Spring rains can trigger wildflower blooms turning barren wastes to fields of color.
Artifacts and rock art show that the Valley has seen human occupation, for at least parts of the year, for over 9,...

I was born in Wales and now live in California having had the good fortune to visit most of Europe and some of America along the way. I find almost everything around me to be an inspiration. I work mostly in pencil and acrylics but I will experiment with any medium to achieve the effects I desire. I love to draw animals, from pets to wildlife. Some of my portraits are quite silly intended to bring a smile, others have a more serious message. My 'Barely There' collection of mixed media works represent a few of the fast disappearing exotic species. I often work with minimal colour palette but occasionally go all out. It all depends on my mood. I think my motto if I had one would be 'You're never too old to learn.' I've just...