Places
The idea of painting places I’ve been all started a couple of years ago when I was standing on the 12th floor in the Clearwater Tower building in downtown Clearwater, Florida. It was a beautiful scene with the bridge going from mainland Clearwater to the causeway leading to the beach.
I did my usual playful experimentation with color and painted the scene with vibrant shades of blue, red, pink, orange, and green. This continues with a series of 6 or 7 other bridge paintings and then expanded to street scenes, cars, intersections, tunnels, and other places that intrigued me with the space, perspective, and patterns.
Jumping back and forth between subjects and sizes of canvas keeps me fresh and on my toes. I never get bored or stale this way. Each painting must pose its own new challenge to keep me excited and anxious about how to create a certain effect. And so, it goes…. trying new color combinations and compositions for each new work.
