For this month’s Virtual Paintout I wandered the streets of Detroit. I saw lots of derelict buildings. Lots. Sometimes, those can be good subjects for painting but these were mostly very large buildings that I didn’t think would work well for the small format I wanted to do this month. And the sheer number of them made me a little sad. I was beginning to think I might just skip this month’s paintout. Finally, I spotted a yellow hat. A yellow hat in front of a pink building. On a figure in an interesting pose. A figure who would fit perfectly on a little 5×7 panel. Done!
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Wandering the streets of Detroit can be a little depressing, so I’m glad you found something to paint!
Looks like you found a spot that wasn’t too run down to make a very nice painting. I really like the way you captured the guy in the yellow hat.
Wow, love your painting. So glad your found a little yellow hat in the middle of the city =)
xx Monique
Wow, this is great! Very inspiring painting!
Well spotted, You certainly have a ‘good eye’ This is a wonderful painting with great colour and composition HPPF
Wonderful painting. Just read a big article on Detroit. Sounds like a sad place these day. xox
just gorgeous! it gives me the feeling I get when I see Edward Hopper’s paintings — dreamy and realistic all at once. beautiful.
Wondering did you take a photo and work from that or did your subject stay put long enough to draw on the spot!? Beautifully executed either way! Wow!
Thanks, Lynn! For the Virtual Paintout, we paint from Google Street Maps of the area we are focusing on, so it is like painting from a bad photo. This guy got captured by the Google car as it passed. He’d have to stand still a looooong time for me to paint him, LOL. I’m just not very fast.
That is a fabulous painting – the color and composition are terrific – I really love the softness.
Wonderful painting, love your composition and palette! <3
Greetings!
I was dropping pins into street view, looking around for more subject matter in Detroit and-by sheer chance-I saw this person you have so attractively painted…yellow hat and all!
If it is the same person, you had to zoom in pretty hard to get your composition(!)
Nice work.
Thanks! I love it when I spot something that someone else has painted. It makes it seem more like we really are all roaming the city at once. Here’s where I found my guy http://goo.gl/maps/RjO6B
Yep, that was the place: “Mexicantown”.
See you on the beat…