Almost Complete

Still Untitled, 16x20 oil on linen panel

     As you can tell by the date on the last post I have been off blog again. It has been an extremely busy couple of weeks and what little time I have I choose to spend in the studio. I have persisted with this painting and made the decisions I talked about regarding the foreground. I decided against the foreground figure as I found it too strong a focal point and prevented the eye from moving back to the Capitol building. I will be including vehicles in the background, a row of parked cars along the right hand curve and I will add some brush strokes to indicate pedestrians. The painting is not overly tight right now and it will be a challenge to keep it that way. I find that to be difficult when working in a state of interruption as I have.

     I have been busy with Art League Board meetings and hanging paintings for our main fundraiser of the year, The Patron's Show. I will upload some photos of the hanging in progress but you can also go to the Art League blog to see some. We will have 650 works of art on view and the day of the event all 650 patrons will go home with a work of art valued at a minimum of $200 which is the price of a ticket. Most of the work is worth much, much more. To see the work available go www.theartleague.org and click on our Flickr link.
Lots more going on so check back in a day or so. I am also getting around to a website update, Finally!

SOLD at the Salmagundi Club "24 Hour Cafe"