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An Artist Paints the Guadalupes
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The park entrance fee is $7 per person for ages 16 and over. Holders of the Annual, Senior, Military, and Access Pass can bring in 3 adults free of charge under their pass.Location:
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Celebrate National Park Week by watching naturalist, author and award-winning artist Walt Davis paint a scene from the Guadalupes in watercolor. He will demonstrate the supplies and equipment needed to work outdoors and show how a complex scene is simplified so it can be captured on paper. He will also tell
the story of artist Thomas Moran whose watercolor sketches and oil paintings of Yellowstone helped establish America’s very first national park in 1872.
Walt Davis, retired director of the Panhandle-Plains Museum in Texas, spent fifteen years creating wildlife dioramas for the Dallas Museum of Natural History. His work required close observation of wild places and their plant and animal inhabitants – experience that served him well as an artist. He is a signature member and past president of the Southwestern Watercolor Society and signature member of the American Watercolor Society. Davis co-authored and illustrated Exploring the Edges of Texas, the account of a 4,000 mile four-year long circumnavigation of Texas including Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks.
His work has been accepted into exhibitions of the American Watercolor Society, Southwestern Watercolor Society, Richardson Civic Art Society, Greenville Art League, Texas Watercolor Society, and Western Federation of Watercolor Societies. Davis has taught watercolor, figure drawing, and plein air sketching at Eastfield Community College, Amarillo College, Panhandle Art Center, San Angelo Museum of Art, and in his studio in Commerce, Texas. He has conducted demonstrations and workshops in Amarillo, Brownsville, Dallas, San Angelo and nine other Texas cities. More recently, Davis has been teaching nature journaling workshops to Texas Master Naturalist groups and has conducted workshops at the Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge in north Texas.
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NPS Phpto / Walt Davis