Main Street #2 is on the old easel in front of some unfinished paintings. One of the challenges (and pleasures) of Main Street #2 is the large number of figures in the space–14. Although the painting is largish, 40″ x 56,” the figures range from small scale to very small scale. Originally it had even more figures! I edited them out and also removed other incidentals. For example, there was another pole and a lot of bric-a-brac on the street in the foreground.
The pole on the left of the photo (outside the painting) is my homemade mahlstick–very useful for large paintings.
The background painting on the right is The News which I talked about last week. In The News the figures are close to life size. I enjoy working on differently-scaled figures. This morning I worked on the drawing for Taking Note which is the same size as The News but has just a single figure.