“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2013
New York City – 5″ x 7″ Watercolor & Black Staedtler Pigment Liner
That was fun! I wish you could see it in real life. All the windows in my building paintings are done with iridescent paint, so they kinda sparkle like real windows. The reference photo was provided by MissMouse at WetCanvas.
The large building in the center took me a full hour to paint. You really can’t see it here, but the pink tiered building on the right even says New Yorker on top. It’s teenie-tiny!
About Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens, the iconic American humorist and writer, is better known by his pen name Mark Twain. He was born on November 30, 1835 in Missouri. He worked at several jobs, including steamboat pilot and miner. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, and other successful novels. His writing captured a very American vernacular and flavor, and helped create a distinctive American literature. He died on April 21, 1910.
Wherever you go, you’re in Bethville. I love this.
Huge Grin here… Thanks, Jill!
Just way, way too cool! That’s it, I’m definitely going to do a cityscape of some sort. Soon. Probably. Seriously, the color and detail is terrific, and the varied building types, the water and docks, super great!
I hope you do, Cindy! You do very imaginative dwellings of all kinds. I can’t wait to see a cityscape!!!
WOW! I love this! And as a native I reserve the right to say you did a FABULOUS JOB on my city! I cannot believe it’s only 5″ x 7″! Small painting, big city, amazing job.
WOW! Thank you, Carol! I am so pleased that you like it. I was hoping you’d see it. I want to come paint it for real one of these days.
I hope you do! That would be great fun. This view of Manhattan is from either Brooklyn or Queens. So you’d really get to see the City. All of it.
I better do it before you go crazy and move to the burbs! We’d have a ball!
WOW!!! Fabulous!!!! Love it!!! ~Sophia
Thanks, Sophia!
Super colorful! Wonderful detail!