55 Raleigh Hills

Ha! This one was really fun to make. One big crowded sprawl of machines and character designs. It's what I like to do more than anything else. I must have tinkered with it for over a month (nights and weekends) back in 2000 and ...four? Something like that.

The title "55 Raleigh Hills" comes from the bus line in Portland Oregon USA that used to roll past my parent's house and through my old neighborhood. In the painting you cans see the "ILLS" on the bus' marquee, since the front part has been chopped off.

For some reason, the actual Portland bus line has been renamed the "55 Hamilton", but I didn't know this fact when I was doing the painting (I haven't lived in Portland for decades). Had I known, I might have put something else on the bus' marquee and called the painting "Crowded Street" or something.