Used Cars a cityscape painting for sale
on Oct 28 by alinquist55Used cars cityscape painting for sale fine art gallery of realism, canvas size: 24
USED CAR LOT, canvas size: 24” x 36”
In this cityscape, there are three tight rows of cars ready for sale. The viewer sees them from the driver side rear corner. Colorful plastic streamers are flapping in the wind of a sunny spring day. The streamers lead to the sales office, which stands on the right. To the left of the sales office is a row of neighborhood businesses.
A city offers a lot of different opportunities for subject matter for painting and that can provide cityscapes a great variety of views to paint. A city can be filled with used car lots and the one an artist chooses really depends on what it offers visually. What attracted this small lot to me was the colorful plastic streamers. Those streamers offered a visual opportunity to me that I didn’t want to pass by.
When I first started this painting, I stopped by on a Sunday, a day that the dealerships were closed and the first days that I worked on the painting were also Sundays. As can be expected, I started with the sky and slowly came forward, painting the trees, the buildings, the cars and then the streamers. I had started this painting in mid spring, as is shown by the trees in the distance, but as I spent time on the cars, I found myself painting into the warmer days of summer. By that time, I was taking half days off from work to finish it. Thankfully, I wasn’t really bothered by the salesmen who worked the lot.
Visually, this is an interesting painting. Generally, there are supposed to be visual paths within a painting that allow viewers to travel from one point to another. Obviously, people can stare into a two-dimensional painting anywhere they want but these paths do psychologically allow a viewer to go from here to there. That is one reason that there are many landscape paintings that have roads in them. It takes you to the farther points of the painting, drawing a viewer in.
In this painting, the cars block a lot of the paths. The only way through the painting is to go up and over and that view is slightly blocked by the streamers. This forces a person to use the streamers to psychologically wander through the painting. This is not completely intentional, but I was aware of the effect as I was painting this scene.
These paths are all simply visual tricks and this painting is pretty popular, possibly because of its subject matter. I do like to paint cars when the opportunity arises and, as people seem to hide themselves in their cars, the automobiles seem to represent an altered humanity. Still, does a space filled with unsold cars represent “unsouled” people? Are they empty until someone buys them?
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