Original artwork description:

This Oil Pastel drawing of Mount Ruapehu was drawn on a very bright afternoon outside the Knoll Ridge Cafe in Tongariro National Park, New Zealand. This is a very beautiful spot and you can drive up to a car park and then take a chair lift further up the mountain to this cafe on Knoll Ridge. You can see for miles across the landscape from here and the rock changes colour from the higher snow covered darker volcanic lava rock to the older more lush green and brown hills. The enormity of this area makes you realise how small we humans are on this earth. This is one of the areas where the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were filmed because of the spectacular scenery. There was an eruption here in 1996 and the darker lava rock is the result of that, there is apparently one due every 20 years…Let’s hope no-one gets caught in it when the next one comes.
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Materials used:

Oil Pastel on Brown Paper

Tags:

#taiwan magpie #mount ruapehu #elevated viewpoint #amazing landscapes #volcanic earth #natural beauty #new zealand #expressive landscape #oil pastel drawing #lord of the rings #snow capped mountains #liverpool #skateboarding #en plein air impressionist drawing #eruptions #bright sunny day #prehistoric landscape #mystical and mysterious landscape #2017