#268 is Simmering #268
by J Griff Griffin
Title
#268 is Simmering #268
Artist
J Griff Griffin
Medium
Digital Art - Paintography Or Digital Painting On Photographs
Description
"Remember times before traffic. Feel your heartbeat slow." It's late fall in this scene. The leaves have gone from the cottonwood trees and there has already been a couple of snows. In a fictitious scene that exudes Colorado narrow gauge railroading #268 is seen simmering as it awaits its next move. The late fall sun is bathing the locomotive in a pinkish light reflected in the sky. The #268 was painted this way for the 1949 Chicago Railfair. It became known as the Bumble Bee paintjob and it was one of the oldest surviving locomotives serving on the narrow gauge until 1954. After that it was gifted to the town of Gunnison, CO and is still housed in a park (covered by a shed and recently restored cosmetically as it was in 1949) there. This little locomotive pulled trains through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, through Cimarron, over Cerro Summit and to Montrose. All in Colorado. Occasionally, it was shopped for major maintenance at Durango. Though I have been doing way too many train paintings of late, this one has been on my mind for a very long time. I just found a good enough reference to paint from this past week and to celebrate my 65th year, I treated myself to doing this loco. It has to be my favorite. And many other railfans will agree. Also, as a note to my fans, I do many other things and cannot paint all the time. Visit GriffinCreative.co to get more information on what I stay busy doing. That is dot "co". I didn't leave the "m" off as in com.
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February 12th, 2015
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