I bought some new canvases in November which are 10" x 26" thinking they would make perfect landscapes for the wide open spaces of our local Flint Hills area.
Then, this last Wednesday I was poking around and reviewing the photos from our NYC trip. I found a photo of my son in the subway. It was the typical horizontal format and included the subway train arriving to the station. Also, you could see a bit of the platform across the way. I was thinking that the picture was great and it crossed my mind to paint the piece in full. Then somewhere in the back of my mind the previously ignored and waiting for a great plein air day, long and skinny canvases came to mind.
A little cropping and excitement mounted as inspiration hit. The tall canvases worked perfectly for the skyscraping urbanscape of the NYC experience.
This piece is a little different from the other figurative pieces that I have done as I have reached further toward realism. I had no intention of bringing complete realism to the piece but I wanted to identify where the subject was without recreating the photo. I also wanted to create the mood of the moment captured.
The day we took this photo we had traveled by foot in an indirect path from Soho to
It was an awesome journey for our first NYC trip as a family and it is important to me to relive this through my work.
I have plans for a few more memorable moments to document and I hope that you will enjoy them.
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