What I hoped to achieve was an impression of Cleveland incorporating the houses which inspired this picture.  The painting is not impressionism in the classical use of the term, but the simplification and idealization of the buildings and landscape and the indication of detail does not give a naturalistic view but an indication of what we see.

 

Originally I was going to have only one cube at an angle and attached to a base with a dowl.  So I started with one wooden cube.  With time constraints I realized that  attaching the cube would pose a bit of a dilemma.  As the idea stewed I realized that stacking the cubes would solve the dilemma of  a base and create a repetition in the piece so I added more cubes and developed the idea with 3 cubes.

This piece went to the 2016 Arts Alive Out of the Box Auction at Summit Artspace in Akron.

I have a wall of work up at Acme #1 in the produce section.  It went up for the new grand re-opening of Acme #1.  Thank you Steve and Sophie Albrecht from Acme for choosing my work to be displayed and Thank you Meg from Harris Stanton Gallery for promoting my work.  The wall looks fantastic.  The colors of the produce and the colors of the paintings play off of one another and create a really exciting environment.

This piece went to Kutztown PA for Salon of Small Works Invitational.  The colors are what have me asking questions here. I couldn't tell you why I chose this color palette.  Every section of the painting I picked colors separately without thinking of the rest of the painting or if it would work or not. The sky is copper.  The roof is silver. The driveway is silver on top of a greyish underpainting showing through. Surprisingly enough though it gives a certain mood that actually works.  The trim echoes the sky and grass, and the driveway echoes the house. At first I didn't like it but seeing it from distance changed my mind.