A painting from Roon’s Travels to the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, home of the Painted Desert, the subject of this painting. The red peaks in the foreground are shaded with crisp, unblended sections of maroon. It has a graphic, posterized look in contrast with far distant mountains. They are heavily blended to show how atmosphere and distance effects their visibility. The clouds forming over the horizon line hint that rain is on its way.