Half Dome Painting is a painting by Bob and Nadine Johnston which was uploaded on May 26th, 2012.
Half Dome Painting
One of our favorite places to visit, Yosemite Valley. When we live in CA, we would go there many weekends and vacations. Half Dome is a granite... more
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Half Dome Painting
Artist
Bob and Nadine Johnston
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Masonite
Description
One of our favorite places to visit, Yosemite Valley. When we live in CA, we would go there many weekends and vacations. Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located in northeastern Mariposa County, California, at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley � possibly Yosemite's most familiar rock formation. The granite crest rises more than 4,737 ft above the valley floor.
Half Dome is nearly as whole as it ever was. The impression from the valley floor that this is a round dome which has lost its northwest half is an illusion. From Washburn Point, Half Dome can be seen as a thin ridge of rock oriented northeast-southwest, with its southeast side almost as steep as its northwest side except for the very top. Although the trend of this ridge, as well as that of Tenaya Canyon, is probably controlled by master joints, 80 percent of the northwest "half" of the original dome may well still be there.
On March 28, 2009, a large rock slide of 1,500,000 cubic feet occurred from Ahwiyah Point. The slide happened at 5:26 a.m and damaged a large area under the dome. No one was injured but hundreds of trees were knocked down and a portion of the Mirror Lake trail was buried. The slide registered on seismographs as a 2.5 earthquake.
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Ernest Principato
beautiful Painting you have captured the majesty of this special sight11 tweeted and G+ V
Nadine and Bob Johnston
Never thought I could paint. Nadine had been trying to get me to for DECADES. Id driven her to classes with Louis Sylvia 3 times a week, then Earl Daniels in Laguna for 2 years and 6 years with Richard and Hisaco Guests in Anaheim.... what Louis taught & watching Nadine 50 years stuck w/me. Finally began painting around 1992 when we retired. Nadine was amazed at my first one, Cathedral Rock, in Sedona... Didn't surprise me, did some Sculpture, with my aunt and uncle, Ruth and Edgar Surdez in the 40's... They both are well known in CA and have work in many Univ, Colleges across the country, CA State House, etc.