Cherry Creek at Colorado Blvd

 The title of this painting is Cherry Creek at Colorado Boulevard. I’ve left a lot out. This painting is the third painting on the same board that I’ve done of this subject. At one point it was in rather natural sorts of colors. At another point I painted it all in a saturated red. And if you look closely, you may see some of that red poking through in a few places where I didn’t completely cover it up.

And I wasn’t satisfied with either of those two paintings. The first one was, just had too many kinds of colors and values going on. And it was unharmonious to me. And the second one was red, fully saturated red. We think of it as bright, but it’s really kind of a dark color. So much light for the painting to look good, but it never looked good because it never had enough light and I was just like, this is a waste to me.

So the third time I painted the bridge and the trees, all basically in the same place as in the, in the Cherry Creek, I painted over it completely differently with a dark and stormy night. Kind of going on with the concentrated light in one spot, but it’s issuing out throughout the reflections in the water and in light streaming towards it, you know, in the foreground.

It’s really made up, except the bridge. That’s about the only thing you could recognize. Let me tell you exactly how to get there. That’s where Colorado Boulevard intersects Cherry Creek North Drive. And this is on the east side of the bridge. And you can get out of your car and walk down to it. It won’t look a thing like this.

But, hey, go look at it.