Sailing Sedona’s Sky
Delight in this Sedona landscape painting of Sailing Sedona’s Sky -.ak.a. Coffee pot rock. Yes, that fantastic rock looks like the kind of coffee pot that cowboys used for their coffee placed on their campfires. A good friend of mine, Joe Bongiorno, and piano composer with a recording studio called Piano Haven here in Sedona said that this fantastic contemporary Sedona landscape painting looked like an ocean, so I named it. “Sailing Sedona’s Sky.
Creating Whimsical Sedona Landscapes
This whimsical southwest landscape painting, Sailing Sedona’s Sky, came about when I took a photo from my deck up on a hillside overlooking this view of coffee pot rock after a storm had just passed through the mountains. Pictured is the famed “Coffee Pot Rock“ with “Thunder Mountain” in the shadow. As the legend goes, Walt Disney used to live here in the ’50s and photographed this rock formation known by locals as “Thunder Mountain,” which is named “Capital Butte” or “Grey Back” Mountain known by the natives. Disney photographed it, gave the photos to his designers back at Disneyland, and told them to use this graphic for a ride. Hence “Thunder Mountain” the ride was born. “Ship Rock” is to the right. If you look closely, you can see some prehistoric birds in it. This Sedona landscape painting looks excellent as a large canvas print or metal.