Ninth St. Italian Market in Philadelphia

Ninth St. Market acrylic 12x36 $900

I have taken the liberty of combining various store fronts from the market which is 5-6 blocks long into one scene.

On a totally unrelated note: Six years ago today, at approximately 2AM, I arrived at 803 Madison St. Paducah in our Subaru Outback pulling an 8 ft. U_Haul it trailer full of paintings and misc. studio stuff!

WORK IN PROGRESS III

It is taking time, far more time than I usually spend on a painting, but it has been gratifying to see the progress. I don't know where this new found patience comes from, but I'm doing my best to take advantage of it.



There are more details to complete, as well as work on the foreground. I think the next time I post this will be the last. In the meantime, a new canvas has just been hoisted onto the easel.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Ever so slowly...I have screwed up the courage to move forward and have begun adding the darkest values using acrylic washes of dioxazine purple, cadmium red, and hookers green. I mays till overpaint some of this with opaque darks. It all depends on how it looks to me after I work on some of the details.


This is a new 36x36 canvas I started yesterday. I don't know if you can see the faint outline of the falling down frame of an old barn. That will be the next step.

WORK IN PROGRESS

The progress is slow but steady. I have painted this market on several different occasions over the years, but always with watercolors; using acrylics requires a different approach and I find myself working with unaccustomed caution. The basic elements/shapes are in place and the next major step is to proceed with the darkest shadows which will dominate the middle area of the painting and allow all of the bright colors to "pop out".