Close Ups

When on location, it's tempting to look around and include everything you see in your painting.  With a camera, at least you have a built in cropping device.  But sometimes when your eye is drawn to a particular element in the scene, it's a call to paint only that as your subject.

I've loved this turret on top of a building at an outdoor restaurant for years.  I've also painted the building just because of the turret.  This time I've decided to depict only the turret, zooming in on it to the exclusion of everything else.

Here's the sketch.  Tomorrow or the next day, I'll try the painting.