Cityscapes of Charlotte - A New Series

 

Here is my new series of Charlotte Cityscapes. The series has 10 paintings. The entire series are 8 x 10 monoprints on paper with watercolor and colored pencil. The above painting is the Common Market in South End. They have the best pimento cheese sandwich in town! It's great how you can see through the building structure. All paintings are $190 plus shipping. Three have already found new homes in private collections. 

 Camp North End at dusk. The water tower at Camp North End is massive. I need to do a paintings of the Gamma Goat truck from the Army located on the property. 

Meredith Connelly's mushroom sculpture at Tremont and Camden. Sullivan's restaurant in the background. 

Hawkers at dusk! 

Cabo Fish Taco early evening! I like the distorted perspective in the cross walks. 

Meredith Connelly's sculpture from another view. This is in South End Charlotte near Atherton Mill.

Flower Child at sunset. The old Charlotte Art League in the background. 

Uptown from NODA. SOLD

Light rail dusk. SOLD

Cabo Fish Taco with a little memorial day flair! People just love the food here. SOLD

 

Cityscape Series Complete!

I have finished my new series of 10 Cityscapes. Here is a gird of 9 of the 10. Fun to see them like this. The Camp North End painting is not in the grid. 

Last two cityscapes in new Series

Just worked on this yesterday: Camp North End! I went by there for the Van Gogh exhibit, I could add more lights! 

Love being able to see the sky through the building; the Common Market in SouthEnd Charlotte. Such a cool building! 

Cityscape Series adding Cabo Fish Taco

Cabo Fish Taco with a little memorial day flair! People just love the food here. The entire series are monoprints with watercolor and colored pencil. 

Meredith Connelly's mushroom sculpture at Tremont and Camden. 

Hawkers at dusk! 

Cabo Fish Taco early evening! I like the distorted perspective in the cross walks. 

Meredith Connelly's sculpture from another view. 

Light rail dusk. 

Flower Child at sunset. 

Uptown from NODA. 

 

Cityscape Mono-Prints New Series - 2 more complete

These cityscape sketches are just so fun for me. I finished two more! The one above is of Meredith Connelly's wonderful mushroom sculptures in the foreground and Camden Street in the background. Hacker's and Sullivan's restaurants in the far background. This is the time of day when everything is blue, just before its get really dark. 

The cityscape above is uptown Charlotte from South End. The building on the left is the former Phat Burrito now Flower Child! The Bee mural and umbrellas are nice! 

Cityscape Sketches done with Mono-printing Technique

 

Before I do almost any painting, I do a sketch. For my cityscape series I did the sketches as mono-prints. I used a photo, transferred the photo in high contracts black and white to sketch paper. Then I would do a layer or two of watercolor. Then I would finish the sketch with color pencil or pastel. 

The mono-print technique is very fast and allows for a great deal of spontaneity! Great fun! 

Southend Cityscapes and Charlotte Cityscapes

Since The Charlotte Business Journal published one of my fireworks paintings, I thought I would post a few more of my cityscapes from Charlotte. These are watercolor, oil and acrylic.