Sometimes you just know exactly how you want a painting to look even before the event has occurred. As I stood in my hotel room poised at the window looking at the street scene below a transit streetcar had stopped to pick up passengers. I knew quite a few taxi cabs traveled the street perpendicular to the streetcar that I had only a small glimpse of from my window. I knew the orange of the streetcar and the orange-yellow of the taxi would make a great composition, enforcing the interesting angles of the streets and buildings. I patiently started to snap pictures hoping to catch a taxi in the frame before the streetcar moved on its way. Finally, a taxi passed and I caught its picture. Since I had seen this painting in my head and was able to catch it live, there was not much to do once I got home to compose the painting other than deciding on the level of abstraction and what details to maintain.

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