About a six weeks ago, I leased a studio on the 3rd floor of the Continental Gin Company Building in Deep Ellum (Dallas) Tx. The decision to look for a studio kind of bubbled up out of nowhere, and I'm really glad I acted on it. I'm in a beautiful old cotton gin factory that has been converted to artist studios. My studio is spacious and north-lit. I'm fortunate to share the building with a great collection of artists in a vibrant, redeveloping area. Working here has completely changed the scale, time frame, and je ne sais quoi of what I paint.
This is a work-in-progress shot of my current painting of a local beer garden with food trucks around a junked sedan. I use my Scene Sketcher Android app to abstract the photo source. It's still pretty rough and needs further balancing of value and atmospheric saturation, but i'm enjoying working on it. 100 cm x 45 cm.
