Acrylic on Canvas, 48"w x 72"h
With "Urbanscape," I used the process of laying down several brighter paint colors as a base. And then, I painted different values of white over that base.
And at times, I uncovered or revealed colors, working some grays and blacks in various areas to give accents. I also let some of the paint run to create motion in this piece.
At the bottom, I used black to make more of a base, creating a sense of buildings. So as you stand back, you feel that you're looking at a skyline with a lot of activity going on.
As I apply paint, especially the first coats, I apply it unevenly, thick in some areas and not in others. So when I scraped on a top black coat in this painting, it lay down unevenly, revealing some of the brighter colors and the white and gray overlays.
You see part of the skyline, but you also see a lot of the color and emotion of an urban area—a city scene. I loved it so much that I did a smaller second version, "Urbanscape II," which I have sold.
In the neighborhood where I grew up, downtown was directly across the river, and I saw it almost every day. So, maybe subconsciously, I was drawing from that image in my head.
