Southwest This image was created for the October 1996 Trompe L'Oeil Room tutorial. It was inspired by both trips to New Mexico, and the fabulous Southwestern paintings of my former Art Center classmate, Ed Mell, who now lives and paints in Phoenix, Arizona, and earns a lot more money for his paintings than I do, but I digress. I was rather pleased with this image. And I'm willing to bet that Ed can't use a computer, so there!