At the time Someday City was the largest canvas I began a painting on. Four by three feet. Many of my professors suggested that I go big, think big with broad-brush strokes. The canvas hung on my studio wall for a month, blank, looking back at me waiting. I remember drawing many thumb nails for the large canvas and one day I though I knew what I wanted, and the pallet filled with piles of color. A few weeks in and I hated where I was going. A month in it just wasn’t working for me, frustration built. I was doing the same thing I always did and knew it so, I took the biggest brush I could find and covered the whole cityscape painting with ultramarine blue. I freaked out and began using turp to remove my large brush stokes, and what turned out opened a large door for me. Someday City is about taking chances, risks by stepping into the unknown. It’s a painting about our future and whether our risks and decision making is right or wrong and how you really are never sure until you do it.
Oil on Canvas 48" x 36"
2000.
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