This painting (6 x 8 inches), entitled "The Weezer" after the local restaurant which is only identified by a "W" and is hence called the "Weezer" by local residents, was painted at the first Urban Painters Flash Mob event dreamed up by Gary Smith. Just prior to an event Gary would send out an e-mail inviting artists to converge on a particular neighborhood and paint for the day.
These events were written up in a blog by another artist Moshe Mikanovski.
In this painting I started to develop a useful but common technique of observing the scene in front of me and picking the one thing that either attracted me or seemed to be the most important element and then tried to not loose sight of that single feature throughout the painting and maintain that as the most important. This may or may not be consciously apparent to a viewer but it does give a cohesiveness to the design. In this case it was the piece of light hitting the sidewalk just where the buiklding turns into shadow at the right.
