Walking the Dog

Dog Walk

Many of my recent cityscapes, well maybe all of them, are paintings of places I go. I have a dog and when I walk Stella we travel around the neighborhood. Harrison is one beautiful street we often walk along, another is Stephens. When the sun is low on Stephens it is beautiful to the west (especially the glowing power lines) and to the east (orange light bathes the houses). Usually I paint looking toward the sun, but this painting looks to the evening east. I took the photo last summer and began the painting in October. I loved the composition. The utility lines and road create movement and their triangular composition complements the triad of stop sign, fire hydrant, and sewer cover. I’ve been aching to bring more gesture and feeling into my work – and when I went back into the sky I did this, thinking I would get some ‘ya yas’ out and then paint over that. But, in the end I left it and rather like it. Currently, I am looking forward to painting larger and will quite possibly continue bringing more gesture back into my work.

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