Snow on the Ground, Bang-bang / by Joe Olney

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Snow on the Ground, Bang-bang  acrylic, graphite, and cotton on wood panel  12x14

This is another one pulled from my time at the National Training Center in Ft. Irwin, CA. Summetime, 1999. We were on a live-fire range in this valley, and out of nowhere it started snowing like mad. That completely blew our minds since it was around June or so and in the Mojave Desert and it was right in the middle of our live-fire exercise. Everyone was going apeshit. We loved it. Guns and snow in the desert make soldiers very happy and a little confused. We were experiencing something truly bizarre and magical.