Trail Guy stopped by the painting workshop and asked me the above question. The painting in question looked like this:

I simply told him it was the underpainting, my way of covering the blank canvas and putting things in place. We both noticed that Vandever (the peak on the right) wasn’t high enough. 

I commenced painting. Tucker expressed a bit of angst, but allowing him to sit on my lap while we contemplated matters of consequence together brought some calmness back into his life.

The edges need painting and I would like better light on the bright edges of the clouds. However, I did sign it in advance of those things because the paint was the right consistency to scratch my name in.

This is Farewell Gap in Mineral King. But I bet you knew that already. It is 8×16″, $225 (plus tax if you live in the Golden State). Might even be sold by the time you are reading this, but I can paint another one for you, now that I have practice at turning a psychedelic painting into a beautiful alpenglow scene.

Ick, that sounded braggadocios. Okay, let’s turn it into an advertisement:

Using pencils, oil paint, and murals, I make art that you can understand of places and things you love for prices that won’t scare you.