There are a few subjects or themes\u00a0that I find myself returning to over and over. When I’m bored and supposed to be listening I doodle\u00a0box stacks or swirls. Nothing coming to mind? I’ll make sunset-silhouetted trees<\/a>. Have a bit of color or a blank paper coffee cup? Cityscapes it is!<\/p>\n

I’ve thought about spending a bit of\u00a0focus drawing real cityscapes that I’ve encountered. Until then, however, here are a few playful paintings, done where I was primarily just having fun with my paint supplies. I do love the contrasting colors and different size\/shapes of the buildings and windows!<\/p>\n

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These two blue-skies were painted simultaneously, side-by-side. So they could function as a diptych (a two-part painting) or equally well as individual works.<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n

Each of these is painted on 8×10″ cold-rolled watercolor paper with acrylic paints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a few subjects or themes\u00a0that I find myself returning to over and over. When I’m bored and supposed to be listening I doodle\u00a0box stacks or swirls. Nothing coming to mind? I’ll make sunset-silhouetted trees. Have a bit of color or a blank paper coffee cup? Cityscapes it is! I’ve thought about spending a … Continue reading Cityscapes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,119],"tags":[109,22,122,121,120],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-available","category-paintings","tag-acrylic","tag-blue","tag-cityscape","tag-orange","tag-paint","post_format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cityscape-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lbzG-9W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}