I finished 6 Days tonight, which feels really good to have the first finished work within the studio out of the way. It's a really interesting work considering that it started as a print piece for last year's print show. Some how if felt right to take it all the way into a finished painting rather than letting it stay a print piece. I changed the title of the work along the way. Ironically, I feel this work is almost a sketch for the 50 x 70" canvases above.
These two canvases are the Bridge Commission. I took Friday off, so that I had the whole weekend to build them and finish 6 Days up. On the left is going to be the Fremont Bridge piece and on the right will be the Steel Bridge. I just finished priming the Steel Bridge piece, so the studio reeks of the wonderful smell of gesso. This will probably be the last rendering of the Steel Bridge for a while. This will be the fourth work I've painted. I'm going to mix this one up a little though and use a different photo reference. On my last morning ride in Portland the day we departed for home. I photographed a barge pass underneath.
Thanks to my friend Shawn I have a ton of photos of the Fremont bridge to choose from. It's going to be hard to narrow the reference photo down since there are so many good shots.
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