"Pike Street Shoppers" Seattle city painting by Robin Weiss

"Pike Street Shoppers"  20x16 oil onn canvas  $1200

 Back in the studio for the winter I finally have time to focus on new studio paintings and reworking paintings that fall short. In other words paintings that have been around and didn't sell or I knew something was wrong and have wanted to try a fix. 

"Pike Street Shoppers", formally, "Crossing Pike", was one of those paintings. There were things I didn't like about it and after making the rounds with no sale I decided, for better or worse to make some changes. I found a photo referance from a few years prior with the sun coming from a different direction which had more interesting shadow paterns and figures. I tried to stay pretty loose and let some of the original painting show through. Did I make it better or worse? I'll let you be the judge....=]

Look for this painting at Alki Arts in West Seattle as part of the December exhibition. I will be represented there with other great Seattle artists!  

On a different note, This weekend is Arts in the Woods Studio tour and I am at the Knowles Studio in Poulsbo!  If you are local and looking for some great affordable art stop by and say hi!