Progress

So remember that big canvas Adam gave me for Christmas? I finally made some progress on it! I primed the canvas months ago, but finally today I started sketching the layout and working on the underpainting. The subject of the painting is Pike Place Market (in Seattle)-- I just love all the fresh fruit they have everywhere and all the bright colors. So when I was there I took all these pictures but I had a hard time narrowing down what to paint. Part of my problem with art is that I want to caputre the entire scene when I like something. So all of my early sketches tried to cover the entire Marketplace AND the city AND the bay AND the sailboats AND the people AND the cars and everything else. It took some work to narrow in a little better. I still don't know what I think yet, but this scene is starting to take shape and it might work. We will see. That's what's fun about art is that you can change everything even up to the last minute. Who knows what might happen?! But in the meantime-- fun!!! I love to paint.