Crystal DiPietro

Desert Wash, Original Painting

2020

Artist Comments
"This piece depicts the beautiful colors and varied textures I found while wandering around in a desert wash," says artist Crystal DiPietro. Capturing a portion of the Mojave desert with its hardy vegetation in the foreground, Crystal creates a visual narrative that spans to the colorful mountains and sky beyond. Utilizing greens, purples, and tans in intricately detailed paintwork, the desert scene thrives with life and vibrance.

About the Artist
Many artists work with the landscape, but Crystal DiPietro sees her works as different from most in the genre. "I tend not to see landscapes as soft and pretty, but as rugged, dramatic and colorful." Many of her works depict wild storms and moody sunsets. She spends a lot of time in remote spots and uses layers of color to create her compositions. Her work hovers between a brief impression of a scene and a pure dream. Crystal's landscapes of southern Utah seem to undulate and continuously change. What's interesting, though, is that these mountains and valleys seem to do the same thing in person. In these areas, the view changes constantly throughout the day as the light shifts, throwing shadows of faces, mazes and alien patterns across the cliff faces. Crystal impressively captures what's there, and what seems to be but isn't.

Words that describe this painting: landscape, desert, mountains, trees, southwest, western, Mojave, sky, wash, plants, Utah, Arizona, California, impressionism, landscape, western, representational, mixed media artwork, green

Desert Wash
Crystal DiPietro
Watercolor, brush pens, pencil, markers on stretched canvas
Finished white edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2020
36 in. h x 48 in. w x 1.5 in. d
7 lbs. 8 oz.