Barstow, California (Route 66)
Acrylic paint on canvas
40″ x 30″
A tale of painter’s block.
March 2024: A painting of the main street in Barstow, California; a section of what used to be known as Route 66. It’s (in May 2024) ten years since I took the reference photo that this painting is based on. We drove the length of ‘The Mother Road’ or ‘The Main Street of America’ in May 2014.
Fast or, rather, slow forward to August 2025. The painting sat untouched on the easel from April 2024 until I stacked it in the corner to replace it with a new canvas to make a painting of an abandoned Ford in Vermont.
Painting that Ford shifted my block and I got back to this painting to finish it.
August 2025: It’s big! And it would look better if the studio lights weren’t shining through the canvas, but I’m back on the road…Route 66. Lots of progress made today, not long to finish it…
…and here it is, finished, after 18 months.
