My first completion

I couldn't start this blog without having completed something so here it is. Excuse the horrible pic, but I have really limited lighting sources right now and not the best camera in the world. Actually it's making me kind of mad just looking at it on here because it looks so bad....

Anyway, I just finished this painting which was started approximately 9 months ago-yes, a very long time, at the request of Brent. He saw some paintings done in a style similar to this at an art show and asked me to paint him one. This is a scene from Brook street here in Louisville. This place holds no significance to me aside from the fact that I Googled "Louisville street photographs" and chose this one. It's not a large painting, 16 x 20, and it's done in acrylic-my favorite. In real life, the colors are much bolder and it has a lot more detail. When I paint I love to include and focus on a lot of detail. I think it gives me a feeling of control or something. Plus I just like looking at something knowing someone invested a pretty good deal of time and effort into it. Not to sound arrogant but I'm pretty proud of it, mainly just because it's finished! I had never painted this subject matter before and liked it very much. Considering this took 20+ hours to complete, this will probably be the last time anything else like this will be posted! Ahh....it feels good to have an official start. 199 more to go!