Title: Golden City, Red Bridge, No Gate
Medium: Acrylics, paper, acrylic medium
Size: 30" X 24"
Ground: Boxed Canvas
Process: Brushes, pallete knife, and fingers.
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This is my translation of Pat Gamwell’s fantastic 4 image composite, Essence of San Francisco

Original Photo

Dorina Costras Fine Art Award
for Excellence in Landscape Painting
SoJie 13, September 2011

Collaboration Reproduction Quality
1st Place
SoJie 13, September 2011

Traditional Art – 2nd Place
SoJie 13, September 2011

Collaborative Connection 3rd Place
SoJie 13, September 2011

This is my translation of Pat Gamwell’s

Link Credits:
Pat Gamwell
Essence of San Francisco

Details

Let me quickly say that I have never been to San Francisco (or even to the United States, yet)+. So the inspiration and challenge for me was, to paint a city that I have never been or seen.

I tried doing some research on the internet to, gleen as much information as possible but in the end, the explosion of information was becoming more of a hinderance than a catalyst. So, after my first few WIPS, I went back to Pat’s photo, and decided that I would look more ‘symbolically’ (as I usually do) at the ‘’Essence of San Francisco" and translate what I felt about this city as an outsider looking through someone else’s image.

By the time I got to the last stage of this painting, it reminded me of my Homesick paintings and how every San Francisco resident must feel when they are seeing, feeling, & crossing the Red Bridge, to a Golden City, with no gates (by the way), on their way home…

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