Painted on mdf

Gamblin Oil Paints with a Galkyd medium.

24.5 x 11.5 inch

Painting is not framed

Painted in the technique of Pleinair, this piece was created completely on location over the course of one or many days.

Painted in the depths of Lyman hill, nearby Sedro Woolley this painting has allot of history behind it as my most costly painting. With my newly purchased truck, I decided to do some light offroading in the foothills nearby. I ended up finding a spot that turned out to be a shooting pit, which if you are unfamiliar that is a wall of rock and dirt on a distant hill that people use to shoot into for fun. About halfway into the painting, a man drove up in his truck and after a quick talk he began shooting into the pit. I recall hearing bullets wizz back if he shot a rock and I had a suspicion that I may not be in a safe area to paint.

Lukily nothing happened and I proceeded to get in my truck and travel down the mountain. At a certain point I noticed a squeeking noise coming from the truck, instead of stopping I continued down the mountain and onto the roadway that lead back into down. The noise contunued to get worse and I noticed some vibrations, I continued the last 20 min drive down the freeway until I got near town, by this point I knew something was very off. Near town, a cop pulled infront of me and we both continued, if he had gotten behind me I certainly would have been pulled over. It was not till I noticed my breaks didnt work that I started freaking out, somehow I had a small dirt space I pulled into, got out of the truck and saw there was smoke coming from it, I poped the hood and saw my CV boot was on fire!

Not having any water on me, I scurried inside my very messy truck and produced a water container that I proceeded to scoop water out of the 3 inch puddles surrounding the area. After getting the fire out and realizing how lucky I was I called a towe truck and ended up paying around 2,000 for the repairs to the truck, resulting in my most expensive painting endevor to date.