My painting process has everything and nothing to do with making art. From scouring maps, driving often days off-road to confirm a location, preparing a mobile work\living situation with food, power, water for a week or longer, safety equipment, art materials, all clothing nessesary. This is the process that allows me to create large scale works deep In the mountains and woods, away from people and connected to my subject matter.
Step 1. Maps
BLM land is at the corner stone of my process, perhaps americas best kept secret is free camping year round for up to 2 weeks per location. Yes, that means you could live rent free year round and I’ve had the pleasure of meeting people who do so.
Step 2. Vehicle choice for off-road/overland
Something I’m equally as passionate about out when discussing art is off-roading and overlanding. Think of overlanding as van life combined with off-roading, you aren’t camping in town in a wall art parking lot, you are an hour deep into the woods with no cell service.
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Vehicle layout/design for overlanding and camping.
This topic should be at the bottom, as it kinda incorporates almost everything togewther, all these decisions of destination, vehicle choice, length of stay, power source, food and cooking needs, sleeping situation and number of people or animals involved and even more all effect your ideal way to layout and design where things fit and go inside your car.
Off-roading obstacles and culture
You’ve got location, you have the car, now you actually get to go out. Off-roading can seem incredibly intimidating, usually your seeing very built up specialty vehicles with people who have lots of knowledge and experience but they all had to start in the same place.
Safety.
The risk and reward, there are a multitude of ways to approach this lifestyle and the different levels of commitment and danger and reward are interlinked.
Water, food, power
While these are all separate categories, they are subjects that affect each other directly and indirectly.
Painting process, subject matter and media.
This is the heart of the entire experince, and is entirely unique to any other art making process, media or subject. Being surrounded by your subject matter is addicting to say the least. Creating art centered around landscape or nature has everything and nothing to do with you or your experince. You are much more aware of the scale of life and effort vs reward.
