I was approaching this painting with many of the same ideas as with the previous paintings, but I was working smaller, working with acrylic for a change, and working up from a solid color. It is one of the only paintings I've done in recent years that has had much at all in the way of representational detail in the background scene, but the simplistic way in which I've painted it combined with the solid blue green color makes it work with the rest of my paintings. In many cities, rails used to be recessed into the street just like streetcar tracks. This was more common in industrial areas, and of course, the tracks were laid in a time when there were fewer cars to get in the way. I'm still debating whether this painting is finished or not.
