I’ve always liked paintings that showed weather in them such as winter scenes with snow, or street scenes either in a rainstorm or just after the rain.  I especially like artists depicting the reflections off a wet street from the lights of cars, or people walking with  raised umbrellas in a gentle rain and lights reflecting off the wet sidewalk.  Maybe it is just that I like reflections.

It’s needless to say, there is a lot of work and planning that goes into the painting of these types of pictures.  The composition and perspective alone is a challenging nightmare.  In the red truck, a painting I did last winter, the perspective was indeed a challenge and a nightmare.  What bothered me was that it looked so simple.

The building next to the building at the corner stuck out a few feet closer to the street as did others that followed that line.  I thought seriously about moving the perspective line back so they all lined up with the corner building.  It would have made it much simpler had I done that.  It would probably look more accurate, but I chose not use my artistic license.  I kept it the way it was.  I knew I was already breaking a few rules with the composition (lines leading out of the picture and so forth).  I did it the way I chose to do it. So what if I break a few rules? Don’t we all?

I did enjoy doing the painting and felt pleased with when it was finished.

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