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“Boy At Play” was inspired by a trip to Lisbon Portugal nearly 45 years ago. Even to this day I love to walk down small streets, explore interesting locations and feel the pulse of the society in which we live in. Nothing posed or planned as seen in my paintings, well maybe in a few portraits!  The lighting was very important to me and the angles in the alleyway all focused the eye on a little boy playing with simple things like paper and sticks. The texture on the painted walls and the cobble stone steps made a simple statement of less complicated times. It brought back some childhood memories growing up in Brooklyn NY back in the 1940’s

Pastel was the perfect medium in which to express the mood of the painting, Building up the layers of pigment and using the white sand paper as the brightest part of the image and keeping the alley way and boy in shadow.  The colors were clean and bright. This painting took me about 12 hours to complete.