Sunset City Scenes, work in progress

When I was growing up I used to pull dabs of paint across the surface. I didn't realize I was doing a poor imitation of a style that Gerhard Richter had mastered.

For the past decade, I've also been inspired by sunrises and sunsets and the silhouettes of urban and nature scenes with these dramatic backdrops.

I've been creating a series of smaller watercolor mono prints in my Essex Studio:

In my Northside Studio I took an evening to experiment with merging these ideas on some panel paintings. I hope to finish these up in 2020, I still need to paint the foreground silhouettes of 2 Cincinnati scenes: