Alan Summer 2026-5

 I never posted the finished sketch of looking north from the Truman parking garage. Well, here it is on hot press.  

I’m tired of trying to make a good painting out of this view. Here is my first sketch on hot press.  While the perspective is off, it was kind of the feeling I was going for.

After several attempts on different media that didn’t work for me I gessoed a big canvas and tried it on that.  I didn’t like that one either but I kept trying to make it better.  I scraped it, gouached it, used watercolor crayons, added clouds, used white watercolor ink, andded reliefs, and any number of other things.  I’m not done yet.  I have more ideas and I haven’t used pastels yet. You will know when I’m done when there’s a time on the clock.  

The bad news is that the next painting I’m doing is off to a bad start as well and I’m determined not to give up on that one either.  The good news is that I found a new interesting onion.