Trains and Buildings

I like to paint in mostly subdued colors.  To keep the colors from being too dull I mix a very rich brown with a phalo blue.  This painting is done basically with the just those two colors and small hint of red.

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Coming and Going #45

I work on four or five different series of paintings.  For example, this painting is part of a series of people crossing the street called "Coming and Going."  I am up to number forty-five from when I started about 2 years ago.  The struggle is trying not to get bored with the same subject matter.  Or, try to find a different perspective when you do the same subject.

Cityscape #2

The top painting is the large version(24 x 30)  and the bottom painting is the smaller work (12 x 16).  I did the smaller work about 3 or 4 months ago.  I liked the way it looked and decided to do the larger version of it.  I don't know how many people work this way, doing small scale versions before doing larger versions, but it is more economical for me.  I don't how many times in the past I set out to do a large painting which I thought would be great. I spent a lot of time and money on it.  But it didn't turn out as good as I thought it would.  

Clark Street Bridge

I try to do a cityscape painting in about 1 out of every 3 works.  In these cityscape paintings I want it to be absent of any people.  Painting architecture was a struggle for me early on.  I found it difficult to keep the looseness while doing strict geometric shapes.

Beach #7

Once I read that genre paintings should be small in size.  They are like a small slice of life that you discover.  In this particular painting, the subject  isn't aware of the viewer.  Almost as if you walked up and discovered this scene.

Cityscape #3

This is a small cityscape painting that was later turned into a larger (36 x 48) painting.  The larger version  is almost complete.  If I have a large painting that I think isn't turning out so well, I will put it aside and hopefully find the answer to it later.

Chicago Merchantile Exchange

Sometime ago I was commissioned to do a large painting of the Chicago Merchantile Exchange.  This painting is a small sketch of what the larger painting might look like.  I will show the client this sketch as an example of what direction I would be heading in.