New light, new color, new place

"South Bogota Barrios" $75 -- SOLD
This is the first time I have attempted to paint when traveling a long distance. I found that a new place with new light and different terrain -- in this case mountains -- I was much more reserved in my approach to the subject.

It required me to solve new problems that my subjects in the woods of the Midwest do not present. Here I had to figure out a way to paint the thousands of homes and still give a hint that they are homes. The majority of homes are red tile with a few that have color. In a small 6x8 inch oil on panel, using an impressionistic style, I decided to treat the mass of homes a mass of color, and only hint at the vertical and angular roofs for the homes in the foreground.

I also used a few splaces of color for the few homes that were painted blue. This appears loose, but the reality is it felt very tight to paint and I hesitated much more than ususal as I struggled to solve more problems than usual in a single painting.