The three from the triptych seem better to try as actual originals and NOT from “angry abstract expressionist “action painting which during COVID isn’t going to find much of a receptive audience. Or even if it did, the tension would “always be there” and at my age maybe I need less of it.

But night time beauty of light is something I am far more fascinated by, have the canvas for, and have the resources for.

I writing from a position that I couldn’t stretch a canvas for the Kuniyoshi “Carp”. So I had to change up and hit SouthLoop IV, and then get into this and have found the below image has a LOT going for it:

hERE’S SOME ALTERNATE VERSIONS:

SUNDAY DECEMBER 3RD, 2021 UPDATE

As usual got even more organized. And part of that aside from having the drawing table close, was getting the big monitor in here. Then I decided to use SouthLoop as the basis of my next “city scape” because I know the terrain. I know the space. It has depth. It has integrity of structures. It’ not the view down a crowded block from ground level that this was:

Then studio organization involved getting research area upgraded via Google Earth installed on Linux MATE.

Then getting Shutter into action.

Then taking these: