On Monday I Painted The Chamber of Commerce

On Monday I had some time to kill in the morning after an appointment with my hearing specialist.

Since I was already downtown I drove around to find another building to draw and paint.

I decided on this one. It was originally a library, but now houses our Chamber of Commerce.

I liked the columns and awning and red doors.

 So I pulled my painters chair out of my car, plus my bag of supplies...I am ever ready now to paint anywhere, any time. I plunked myself down on the sidewalk in front of my parked car. And I got to work.

 A gentleman came out of the building and came to see what I was doing. He jokingly said they'd like to hang my finished painting inside the Chamber.

 I went on to paint and then to draw over the original drawing with black ink in both medium and fine pointed pens.

And here she is.

The building is actually an off white color...I couldn't decide what to use to get to that color so just used some green with a lot of white that was in the paint palette from a previous days work. And decided it was fine. The flag in the window on the left side is actually a reflection from the larger flag hanging up in front of the building (but not seen in this picture). My focal point was that ornate front and those four tall columns!

This took about an hour and a half start to finish.