Yesterday (Thursday) was February Reprieve  –the sun shone in Portland Oregon, and I doggedly worked on Plant 5 again.

JOU, Plant 5, panel 2, 16 x 12″, oil on masonite, 2012

Miscellaneous observations:

The skateboarders were by and large absent, strange for such a nice day.

Plant 5 lets out at 2:30 and the going-home workers are curious about painters.

The back of the Pratt and Larson Building is lovely and warm as it faces south.

Painting industrial structures forces one to look only at shapes because I have no names for most of what I’m seeing.

The sun in late afternoon makes a great excuse for quitting the scene because even my desert hat can’t keep it out of my eyes.

The office workers in front of whose space I paint are polite and as curious as the plant workers. At least one of them has a most charming dog. He (the dog) wedged himself between cart and easel and leaned against me while his person chatted with me about sunshine in February.

The traffic was massive and confused, but not terrifying.

I am wholly appreciative when drivers who are making turns make eye contact with me as I wait at a crossing.

Graffiti is fun to paint.

–June

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