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Here is a commission I just finished from my New York gallery. It is a rather large piece that had to depict a certain group of buildings on the Upper West Side and its shipping and receiving past. The client wanted some structures from the turn of the century that dealt with the old railroad line and some storage warehouses. There was a lot of information requested to include...the pier, water, storage units, trains, train tracks, typeography, new architecture, sky, grain lift... I did a bunch of sketches, some playing with design, some with pattern, some really stripped down and simple, others complex. The sketch they chose was pretty straight forward so in the execution I focused on color, texture and mood. Trying to keep the surface interesting at the same time keeping the value gradations soft even though I painted most of it with a knife.