Pike Street Market - Painted Clothes!

Hand Painted Clothes

8 x 6in oil on canvas panel $135. SOLD

Artist Note.

I always admire the merchant 

who uses the air space

 above their tables to display their wares.

This vendor cleverly strung lines to hang

layers of hand painted clothes.

I was drawn to the scene, 

but it turned 

out to be rather difficult. 

To arrive at a good design

I had a choice to make...

 feature the hanging clothes 

OR 

the two women. 

As you know - 

the eye nearly always sees the 

color white first 

so I arched the white items together, 

and offset the women to the side.

 I started off with one woman, 

but preferred it when I added another.

Lots of scraping off while 

trying to solve problems as

they emerged, 

completely held 

 my interest while painting this one.

Enjoy the weekend! 

Pike Place Market - The Flowers

 The Flowers at Pikes Market#1
6x8in oil on canvas panel $135. SOLD

Artist Note.

You can imagine my pleasure seeing
so many gorgeous flowers.
Unbelievable shapes and colors!
The young women who work with the
flowers are beautiful too.

This was a fast one. I want to do a
larger painting of the flower stalls
so will be working on a few small
flower paintings
 to explore my options
for colors and design.

Pike Place Market - T-Shirts!

Pike Place Market - T-Shirt!

8x6in oil on canvas panel  $135. SOLD

Artist Note.

Continuing to explore with paint my

Pike Place Market experience.

This was fun to paint...

but difficult with the many

shapes and colors. T-shirts were
hanging all over the back
and staggered in different piles
on the counter - and not color
co-ordinated at all.
I had to decide 

on a focal area, and make 

everything subordinate to it.

It is too easy to paint everything
with every little detail when painting
from a photo like I did here,
but I wanted to capture how I
responded to the colors
and artificial lighting because
they were what had excited me.
Every time I got too precise I
closed my eyes and took myself back
and remembered the atmosphere...
then scraped off and redid.

Above, I show the vendor folding up a
shirt and he had the brown bag
already opened to place it in.
Efficient!

This is one I really liked.

Guess Where This Is?

Pikes Fish Market, Seattle.

8x6in oil on panel $135. SOLD

Never, ever, thought I would paint a fish

market, but going to the famous

 Pikes Market in Seattle

and seeing the fish throwing...

the colorful lighting...

 and the enormous

selection of all types of sea food 

made me want to tackle it.

Artist Note.

I want to thank my hosts in 

Wichita, KA,

Portland, OR and Edmond, WA

for making my time easy and enjoyable.

All of them are art lovers and collectors

so staying in their homes was a 

genuine treat.

The reception to my teaching

and the fracturing technique 

plus seeing the amazing results

was heartwarming and good for my 

ongoing growth as an instructor.

It will take a while to assimilate all the 

experiences and settle back into my 

regular schedule, but I am already working 

on a Pikes Market Series.

Now I am off to catch up on all the blogs

I follow. Looking forward to seeing what 

you all have been up to.