Night Excavation

One of the paintings of the first series in 2008, themed on the dry excavation going on round the clock. I wanted to try a night scene and see if I could make the lighting feel believable. I did a small study to work out the lighting (below) and have included the finished piece which is 30 x 40. Dan Hansen at CalArts suggested adding the figure at the top left of the painting to help the scale. A great call.

First painting

This is the first painting I did for the Canal Expansion in 2007 as a small test piece (9 x 12) to see if they liked the style and approach. I work fairly loosely and try to avoid a lot of detail, letting the viewer finish the painting.

The head engineer for the project, Jorge Quijano told me its the screen BG on his laptop. I gave him the original.