BEHIND PADUCAH

"By their backsides you will know them."  Someone, somewhere, at some time must have said something like this

THE DAILY URBAN LANDSCAPE #34 WILMINGTON BACKSIDES

I will resist making any and all of the smart-ass remarks I can make about my interest in backsides.
This morning I'm posting to paintings done in the 1980s: the first is a view of Old New Castle where I am standing with my back to the Delaware River, the second is looking at the back of a group of row homes, but I no longer remember where there were. 

BY THEIR BACKSIDES YOU WILL KNOW THEM

I’m not sure that means anything, but I like the way it sounds, and the different meanings the words can inspire.  For the purposes of this post, it means that the backs of so many urban buildings often stand in stark contrast to their fronts, and are frequently far more interesting to me because of the nitty gritty texture and disarray

I’ve been rendering the back side of buildings and streets for as long as I have been painting urban architecture…some 40 years now.

Wilmington backyards...watercolr...circa 1980

Where Am I?  Early Paducah watercolor...circa 2005

Included in the Paducah Portfolia - a work very much in progress - are these two new paintings.

Behing Market Sq. East...markers

Behind Jerfferson St....markers

I can't help myself.  When I see stuff like this I simply have to draw/paint it.  Or this...

Sidewalk Sentinels...watercolor and ink...circa 1980