I love road trips, mainly because I rarely have to drive and get to spend the time looking out the windows and watching the world in all its rich beauty fly by. Nothing stays the same for long: the sky, the plants, the horizon - so I take pictures to help me remember, and use them as prompts for my memory when I return to my studio and try and process all that looking with my oil paints. This piece is my capture of the vista from the passenger seat on a long summer road trip from California to Oregon. The painting has a companion piece, Road Trip 2.