Liquor
12x16 Oil on RMLP
Here is a Liquor store in Pasadena on the north side of the Freeway that is literally called "liquor" I liked it's complete generic quality. It's kind of an ordinary little old building, but at night It's got some kind of indefinable quality due to its age that make it art to me. They are flattening this kind of place at an astonishing rate around here, I guess there are still some around at all simply because Liquor stores are cash cows.
posted by william wray at 10:20 PM
43 Comments:
silence, the dark, calm... a good atmosphere for one night calm, although also could be the principle of one night anxious ¡¡
By the way nice work 8)
Its now and then, and probably soon to be gone. The way you have documented it will give me a resonant visual memory of something I've never seen. Cool.
This had the feeling of an Edward Hopper painting-I like the murky night atmosphere, and the touch of blue is a perfect contrast!
Great nocture! I like the way you adjust the color to avoid the awful "night photo" look you get from many digital cameras. Also a warm feel to it and reminds me of many nefarious adventures of old.
Very nice. Gotta love the nocturnes.
Happy new year William!
I admire so much painting at night, I find it very difficult myself.
WOW!! Stunning!
I love the "mood" of this painting. Very nice! I like the lighting.
I think old buildings have so much more character to them. Even the fairly simplified ones like this liquor store. It's a shame that people tear these down and put newer blander structures in their place. This building has history to it, and it will soon be wiped out...Good to see that great artists such as yourself can somehow preserve the memory of it.
As a founding member of Drink and Draw this one had me at first click. Bravo!
Hey Q-- that's me scary looking, but I can be nice. We are what we paint.
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Ron,
back at you! I feel the same way about the places you're painting--
Leslie: Hopper eh? I wish, he is a big hero of mine. I just got the catalogue raisonne. I only could afford it as it was a damaged copy...
A splendid painting!!
AMAZING piece William!! BRAVO!!
I bought the Hopper catalogue at the Strand bookstore a few years ago for $40 because of minor water damage. The employee just put it out right in front of me like I was meant to own it.
Keep up the phenomenal work!!
I love nocturnes. If I drank Thunderbird or MD 20/20 this would be the place to go. Hopper would approve this painting. Plenty of places like that here in Nashville.
I visited your website and your influence page. Fechin is your man! I called my wife up and said "check this guy out, he turned a transformer into a fine painting! You all have it going on out there in CA.
Brilliant!
You're like the Tom Waits of Plein Air, you know that?
Wk I guess I'm lucky, often my photos look warm, I have to remember to add cools...
Tony, yes you do.
Stef,
I just work form photo's. I jsut keep doing it until they started to work more or less.
AC Yes!
My thoughts exactly Shawn, soon I'll be torn down and replaced, you better get to work. You will have to take over.
There's a lot of 'darkness' creeping into the new work.
Love the mood.
Dan,
Liquor and drinking don't mix, it's not like you could take the sketches you did drunk and sell them in a book. What a waste of time.
Hey Stefan, Your's are pretty splendid too!
>>My thoughts exactly Shawn, soon I'll be torn down and replaced, you better get to work. You will have to take over. <<
My comic book series, Untamed Highway, is about this very subject.
I like the "beacon of light" amidst the seedier atmosphere--adds a hint of irony, too.
Oh, and well-said, Shawn--I love that concept of your comic.
There was a liquor store near the college I went to. It had a big sign that said, "Drive Thru". Unfortunately some inconsiderater person parked their building in the drive through lane. It's a shame.
This painting is quite nice. It feels desolate, dark and good for a drink.
**The above comment is mine.
And Chuck Rose, yes! The Tom Waits of Plein Air indeed! Maaaaybe a little more coherent, but thought provoking and emotive with a touch of sad humor nonetheless.
Mark , It's amazing Hopper keeps growing on me more and more.
True that. What am I thinking... Madness!
Very nice Bill, one of my faves by you. I can smell the night air in this one.
thanks C.
Fechin is amazing, I can't get over his work. I'm dieing to see a big show sometime. Thanks for the kind words.
Mike-- I don't know about that , but thanks.
Chuck,
I never got Tom Waits, but I think I get you analogy and I thank you.
Dom,
You have no idea how dark it goes, happy i'm still here.
BG -- Not conspicuously intended, but God knows how many use liquor to go on in this world, a close second to religion or salvations leader?
Damn Crawl,
I hate it when that happens. out of town developers who bought our city "fathers" are about to park 72 condo's over our tiny corner market. So fucked.
Ok Jess-- Of course it was.
Hey Mike with a touch of stale beer, a hint of vomit and pinch of pee?
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