When you're crossing Texas heading east on I-10, there comes a point when the road starts to settle lower into undulating hills, and the sparse vegetation of West Texas gives way to a beautiful green. This was my first (and, I hope, not last) attempt to capture that experience. My favorite thing about this painting is the truck lumbering up the opposite lane. I like how its essential truckness is conveyed with a few simple marks. I've always felt that adding human-scale elements to a landscape is tricky because of the risk that they'll look out-of-place or demand too much attention, but this truck looks okay to me, probably because it is soft-edged and small enough to sort of melt into the surrounding shapes. (No. 69, 6x6", on Gessobord, Nov. 3, 2012)
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