Coming Soon

[Bongo]

"Coming Soon To A Lot Near You"

oil on 18"x24" cradled panel

comments welcomed

 

[Donna T]

The crane really makes the composition in this all-too-familiar scene. You sure know how to depict urban scenes so well.

 

[Artyczar]

This is great, Bongo! I know all too well how it's a hard trick to get those browns just right for the dirt and soil. You did them perfectly for this. The title of this brought my blood pressure up. Too much building going on, especially around my parts. I don't know the status of Seattle, but here, it's just insanity.

Excellent piece!

 

[Bongo]

Donna, Ayin, thank you. Cranes litter the skyline here. Seattle for several years running was the number one city in the nation for cranes. Everywhere you look, massive apartment complexes are going up. We have a new Light Rail train system now, and they are bulldozing blocks of residential homes at a time to make way for complexes. It's a land grab - they're going up all around me, they want my block. No way they are going to be able to occupy all the new units. They'd have to double the population. Studio apartments start at $1,200. .. and where are they all going to work to make that kind of money?

Ayin, you are spot on about getting browns/dirt. I kept painting and repainting till I got something close - dont' know if I could repeat it.

 

[Terri]

Such beautiful browns! Terrific composition, with the crane looming over all that bare earth.

That's an impressive sized panel, too. Great job!

 

[Bongo]

thanks Terri.

 

[snoball]

Well depicted, Bongo. Around here we have 700' windmills coming to ruin our beautiful Ozarks mountains. Sickening.

 

[Bongo]

Thanks Sno - and I share your pain. I did a plein air of the "Trading Musician" awhile back. A local landmark. Some famous and near-famous musicians worked there and passed thru the doors over the years. Drove by yesterday and it's being torn down,.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Excellent painting. Growth is same here. They expect the population in our small town to double from 20,000 to 40,000 in the next 6 years. Where will they go to school and eat and live and.......scary.

 

[Bongo]

it is scary. I think a certain amount of it is developers getting investors hyped up - to build now, "land and labor prices only going up, get in now!" And then they get out leaving the investors with vacant buildings. It's a type of pump and dump... happens with stocks, etc. all the time.