Old Gas Pumps (Red & White)

6"x4" (each) oil on raymar panel. • These old pumps are located over in beautiful Monrovia, California. I did these two little paintings after I did an 8"x12" of the whole station. A pretty poor quality picture of the station painting is pasted in below. Sorry about the quality of the shot, but I just threw it on the easel and shot it on the "Auto" setting on my demonic camera. In person, these poor pumps are in pretty bad shape, but I threw my palette at them and these two pieces are what I came up with.  •  Shadows are great places for color experimentation. Or, as I like to do it, color experimentation run amok (isn't "amok" a great word?).  •  Though these are separate pieces and thus listed separately on eBay, I thought I would share both of them with you at the same time. It's just kinda neat seeing them side by side.
Posted August 8, 2012

sold • private collection duarte, ca