King and George Streets

September 2008 | Acrylic & Ink on Canvas | 11″ x 14″
This was my first painting in about 7 years, and it took me a while to get rolling again. The initial image has no real focal point, and I feel that the final painting is overworked.

The scene is King Street East at George Street, about a block northeast of the St. Lawrence Market. Both buildings are historic buildings. The one in front is now a Starbucks, but in the late 1800s it housed a business that imported goods from India when that country was still an exotic British colony [map].