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 street car had stopped to pickup passengers. I knew quite a few taxi cabs traveled the street perpendicular to the street car that I had only a small glimpse of from my window. I knew the orange of the street car 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 street car moved on its way. Finally a taxi drove by 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.
- Framed: 12.25 x 20.25 in (31.12 x 51.44 cm)
- Subject Matter: Street/City Scene
- Inventory Number: 0C 1080 38
- Collections: Cyclists and Other Transportation, Urban Scenes