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Leonard will be
the first to tell you that he’s not an artist. He almost blushes at any
comparison. What he has done however, that sets him apart, is to express his passion on a
large scale in a way that has not been seen before. He
sculpts his subjects out
of adobe and then coats them with paint. The first few coats absorb into the
dirt. If you have ever painted anything you know that if you put on too much
paint, the paint will drip and run. That’s what Leonard does – he puts on as
much paint as he can. As a result, you will see drips everywhere on the
mountain. That’s his style. I call it the "splooch" method. He blobs
the paint on rather than paints it on. Much of the mountain has 10 to 15 coats of
paint on it. Leonard doesn’t worry too much about the drips because he knows
that he will paint it over again. The more paint, the tougher it is.
This is Leonard’s art – it is simple, true, and honest.
I have a couple thousand pictures of Salvation Mountain. If there is anything you would like to see, just let me know and I will try to oblige. Contact Bob for information.