Original 10 x 20 Oil on Canvas
Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Ready to hang
Painted January 2020
Downtown Viroqua is a panoramic view taking in both sides of the historic downtown. I wanted the whole street in there — not one tidy building pretending to represent the place, but the rows of storefronts, the highway running through the middle and the way everything stacks up as you look toward the distance.
The sky is doing what my skies tended to do around this period: refusing to sit still. Thick blue, turquoise, gray and white brushstrokes swirl overhead and give the whole thing that slightly dizzy, motion-filled feeling I kept coming back to.
Below it, the buildings are painted much more solidly. I used thick paint and short marks to suggest windows, signs, brickwork and storefronts without turning it into an architectural drawing. The sunny side of the street catches warm oranges, reds and ochres while the opposite side falls into cooler shadow. Snow and slush break up the foreground and catch bits of that light.
It’s Viroqua as I saw it: recognizable, a little distorted, and considerably more interested in movement and color than behaving itself.
Want a print instead? You can find prints of this piece here: Downtown Viroqua.
Original 10 x 20 Oil on Canvas
Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Ready to hang
Painted January 2020
Downtown Viroqua is a panoramic view taking in both sides of the historic downtown. I wanted the whole street in there — not one tidy building pretending to represent the place, but the rows of storefronts, the highway running through the middle and the way everything stacks up as you look toward the distance.
The sky is doing what my skies tended to do around this period: refusing to sit still. Thick blue, turquoise, gray and white brushstrokes swirl overhead and give the whole thing that slightly dizzy, motion-filled feeling I kept coming back to.
Below it, the buildings are painted much more solidly. I used thick paint and short marks to suggest windows, signs, brickwork and storefronts without turning it into an architectural drawing. The sunny side of the street catches warm oranges, reds and ochres while the opposite side falls into cooler shadow. Snow and slush break up the foreground and catch bits of that light.
It’s Viroqua as I saw it: recognizable, a little distorted, and considerably more interested in movement and color than behaving itself.
Want a print instead? You can find prints of this piece here: Downtown Viroqua.