I love doing cityscapes! I love painting cars! This painting shows atmospheric and linear perspective. The atmospheric perspective is shown by having a big car nearest us with detail while the cars further away are smaller and less detailed. The same is true with the streetlights and trees. The linear perspective is shown because the street is wider at the front and goes narrower the further you go. Both types give depth to the painting.
Another technique used is reflected light. Look at the left side of the large white car. It has a pink glow on it from the road. Further ahead you’ll see some yellow windows in some of the vehicles. That is reflection from trees. Notice the road is painted deeper red in the shade, but a yellow shade in the sunlight.
This is a picture of my son-in-law Jeremy and his 2 best friends from high school. They went for a 120 mile bike ride on the C&O canal. They stopped beside one of the locks for a picture. I tried to work from the picture to preserve the memory for him.
This is the finished product of my previous post “Frustration.” You’ll notice a strong sense of atmospheric perspective – the cornstalks are painted much larger than the barn, and they are painted much sharper while the barn is vague, giving an illusion of depth. The cornstalks on the left go off the canvas, giving a vertical anchor to the picture, while the horizon line gives a horizontal anchor. There is a strong contrast created by the organic shapes of the cornstalks, but the barn is rigid.
I am lucky to know one of the most beautiful women in the world. I spent a lot of time checking out different poses we could use. We looked at different places in her home, different places on her property and ended up back in her woods next to a frozen creek.
This is the finished work of my nighttime car painting. You saw the progression from Work in Progress 1 to Work in Progress 2. This one actually changed because I moved the buildings on the right further towards the center of the painting. You’ll notice windows. The building in the center emphasizes the linear perspective as the lines move to the left. I’ve worked more on the cars, the lights and a few people. I’d like to mention that I was more interested in creating a “feeling” than a representation.
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