Painting a City Scene

I had the pleasure of painting a demo this afternoon for the art club at the Baca center in Round Rock.

They thought it it would be fun for me to paint a city scene. It was fun - but also a challenge.

What I wanted to focus on demonstrating was working large to small in order to simplify busy scenes like a city corner. But to get to the small, you gotta get the big shapes in. I finally did cover enough to demonstrate making the big shapes more interesting by adding more texture and breaking the shapes down into smaller interesting shapes.

I have a lot more to go on this but feel like it's a sound start. What is left is the fun stuff - adding those interesting strokes and spots of highlights or dark darks.