The First Attempt

So here goes. My first attempt at this whole blogging experience. My thoughts on this are basically to help me stay consistent with some of my paintings. I'm hoping by updating my progress on here it might keep me a little more focused.

So here is the story about this painting. On a winter break from college when my family was living in Bethlehem, PA my mom took Maya and I to New York City for the day. We walked around the city going to the usual spots like Times Square and Rockefeller Center. As we walked along the streets of NYC I had my camera. I took alot photos that day, but one that has always stuck out is the one I took of a man talking on a pay phone. It's definitely a moment in time that was captured. With the shot I did one of those focus on something off to the side of him and then slowly move the camera over and get him in the shot. Hoping then he wouldn't notice that he was the subject of my photo. I will definitely post the actual picture in a future posting so be looking for that. I cropped the original image significantly for the painting. For some reason I like to crop most of the subjects head out of my compositions.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this. I have never been good at grammar so I'm sorry for that.