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! 

Flower Stall

Flower Stall

6x8in oil on canvas board 100.

I really admire the market people who get out early to set up their stalls. You can see some amazing and creative displays - especially with the vegetables. But on this particular day it was the flower lady who caught my attention as she was lovingly going through everything, snipping and talking to each bunch as if they were her children.

A painting with colors as bright as this one needs "grays" to balance the painting, otherwise the colors would look garish instead of rich, so there are green, mauve,blue and even red grays in here. I mixed in the complement of each color to achieve them.