'DRIVING RAIN'
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'Driving Rain' is a 14"x18" acrylic on canvas. I set out to do a really loose-knit painting, and this one took about an hour and a half from start to finish. Just quick outlines and strokes , using many different colors. It was a very good exercise in leaving out details while still going for a certain mood.

1. I had a vision in my head of where I was going with this, so I just started slappin' the paint on :)	2. As I continued, my perspective changed, and I added a road and faintly outlined some cars, quickly using a dry brush in the wet-but-fast-drying acrylic paint. Loosely sketched out some buildings, nothing fancy.
3. Starting to paint a "wet" feel on the road, and add cars and headlights. Shading in one side of the street, starting with green buildings. That side also gets a couple street lamps.	4. This is a simple and loose painting, and I had fun adding a blur of paint to show the wet road.
5. Here I detail an awning and the street lamp, and add more rain and color, and make the headlights more pronounced.	6. In the final version, the other side of the street is filled out, and looking closely, you can see pedestrians hurrying along under a red umbrella. More street lamps show the rain really coming down. The curbs look wetter and the windshield wipers are wokin' overtime. Click on it :)

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