Crane painting

As some of you might know, my aunt Carol C. Howell is an artist. A rather good one, at that, and she occasionally gifts members of the family with her work. The watercolor/collage of the bicycle wheel and drive train in the living room here is hers, for instance. Anyway, upon my posting of Burning Man pictures this year, she commented that one was really striking and should be made into painting. I promptly forgot about it until I was opening a suspiciously large and flat package from her this Christmas.



I love it so much it hurts. This picture doesn't do it justice, of course.

For comparison, here is the original picture, and here is the same structure later in the week with wing attached. (Yes, it is a crane crane.) The upper gantry was articulated, with pneumatic rams to raise and lower it so the performers could hook in easily.