Saturday, January 7, 2012

New York Cityscape


"Downtown Windows", Pastel on sanded paper, 9 x 12

This is a study for a larger oil pairing that I have already started in the studio.  I have two cityscapes that I am finishing up before I head down to the tropics for a couple of months.  There are a couple of things that I really like in this piece and hope to keep in the larger painting.  I pushed the colors in the windows to achieve the grey harmony in the building colors.  I also tried to avoid being too "architectural" in my edge work.  I like the loose quality of some of the edges even though some of the lines are not quite in alignment!  The challenge will be to keep those qualities in a larger painting.

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