I have decided to post this painting daily, as long as I am working on it daily. The details are emerging slowly. I worked on it in the studio late last night, until about 3 a.m. Now I am back at it on a Tuesday afternoon. For years, I have been fascinated with the monumental posture of this clock outside Haltom’s Jewelers in downtown Fort Worth, Texas (Sundance Square). I had always had a fantasy of rendering it in watercolor, and now that I am at that point, I find myself frozen at the colors in the bronze, both shadows and highlights. I’m still trying to find those colors in my palette. Once I solve the “bronze” problem, I’ll resume the clock. The reflections in the upper story windows of the jewelry store also have me fascinated. Too often, I just paint the windows as black silhouettes, avoiding problems of reflection and distortion. But these window patterns are too fascinating for me to do that. At any rate, if I botch them, I could always come back and turn them into silhouettes!
Thanks for reading.
Tags: Americana, cityscape, clock, downtown, drybrush, Edward Hopper, Fort Worth, Haltom's Jewelers, Jewelry store, nostalgia, Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, summer, Sundance Square, Texas, watercolor
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