Building Momentum

This is a view painted from one of the courtyards at Union Station.  Union Station is one of my favorite buildings in Los Angeles, and I believe I'm not alone in that.  It shows up in movies and television shows very regularly.  Union Station images used to show up on album covers when album covers were a thing.  With a longing more theoretical than real, I used to want to be an artist of album covers.  That desire has been replaced by a desire to paint pictures for bottles and cartons of microbrewed beers.

 

Railway station

So this is the old Pasadena train station. It may be one of my more successful acrylic paintings. It used to hang over a hole that some movers made in the wall at our old home. It has many layers of nearly transparent color in medium in the sky and the street, as you can see.