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. 

SUNDAY BARN TIME #126 (I think)

It's not Sunday morning until I post the barn.  This weeks barn is from a recent series of barns from west Kentucky.  I try to keep an accurate record of the location of the barns I photograph, but in spite of my efforts I invariably find one or more barns where the location has been "lost".  Today's barn is somewhere in Graves Co.

Somewhere in Graves Co,

Watercolor  11x14

THE DAILY URBAN LANDSCAPE #33 LOOKING BACK AT BACKS

I couldn't resist the "looking back at backs" thing.  But it's true.  My attraction to the backs of buildings of all sorts has been with me for as long as I have been drawing and painting.  It really began in Wilmington Delaware when urban architecture and landscapes became the focus of my art.
Almost 40 years later, I'm still looking at the backs.

 

Behind Fourth St. in Wilmington

Pen & ink  late 1970s

Behind the Irving Cobb in Paducah

Pen & ink and markers  2003

THE DAILY URBAN LANDSCAPE #32 A Philadelphia street corner

In the late 1970s and early 80s I spent countless hours roaming the city streets with my camera, looking for my next painting or drawing.  Eighteenth and Sansom Streets meet in Center City and the unusual architectural elements and colors demanded my attention.  I painted this in 1980 using pen & ink, watercolor, and colored inks.

A Colorful Corner

Ink and Watercolor

20x30"

THE DAILY URBAN LANDSCAPE #31..SAVANNAH'S MONTEREY SQUARE.

My day and half stay in Savannah was marked by gray skies and light rain, but I still managed to shoot several rolls of film as I walked from one of the city's famous squares to another.   After reviewing all of them, repeatedly, I settled on Monterey Square as the subject of my print.  Using artistic liberty, I "unwrapped" the square and this was the result.

Monterey Square

Print from original watercolor

10x30"

THE DAILY URBAN LANDSCAPE #30 Another day with Frank Furness

I tried to portray a wide range of Furness's work in this one montage.  I apologize for the poor quality of this photo which was taken years ago with no intention of it ever being printed for public viewing.

In Praise of Frank Furness

Watercolor  30x22"

Unitarian Church in Philadelphia

Watercolor  14x14"

THE DAILY URBAN LANDSCAPE #29 Staying with Frank

I thought I would spend a few more days with Frank Furness and the City of Brotherly Love.  Furness designed a number of banks in the city and surrounding communities.  I decided to put some of them together in one painting, and since all but one of my references were in B&W I had to use my own color schemes.  The result was called Franks's Banks.

Frank's Banks

Watercolor

Approximately 15x40"