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North Dakota Badlands #3
North Dakota Badlands
Digital Painting
28 in h x 20 in w
2026

This atmospheric digital painting captures an expansive, misty North Dakota Badlands vista shrouded in low-lying fog. In the foreground, scattered deep green junipers and sage-hued plains set a quiet, grounded tone. Layered earth tones sweep across the midground, featuring eroded, tan and ochre clay hills marked by fine gold highlights and warm terracotta soil accents along the slopes.
A thick layer of cool gray haze blankets the valley, softening distant ridges and creating a deep sense of spatial depth. Rising dramatically above the mist in the upper right background, a glowing, sunlit reddish-orange peak pierces through the fog beneath a calm blue sky. Rendered with a soft, canvas-textured finish, the composition balances muted mineral shades with rich earth tones, evoking a serene, early-morning atmosphere over a rugged wilderness terrain.