MICHAEL BAUM ART

Often, the stark southwestern landscape presents a softer side as when early morning light illuminates a sea of junipers receding into...

I was blown away by the stark, intensely blue- violet shadows across these cliffs in the bright afternoon sunlight. Colors like this...

Wandering among these cliffs is a kind of time travel. Hundreds of millions of years are revealed in a few hundred feet. Each tiny layer...

A ripple on the surface of the river exists for only an instant. But over eons of time, ripples sliced through hundreds of feet of...

There are few things more inspiring than the exposed bones of the earth, eons of time laid bare, each having its own color, telling its...

Unable to get out on the road during the pandemic to see new places and new things to paint, I had to seek inspiration from previous...

Living in the dry Southwest, rain is a spiritual thing, a cause for celebration. There are few things that fill me with joy more than the...

The Awesome and deadly beauty of the Southwest

A tribute to Edward Hopper in paint.

An artist's encounter with quicksand on a backpacking trip to Grand Gulch, Utah. But, there is more than one kind of quicksand.