Awning and Window

Awning and Window by Lucas Geor. Acrylic and color pencil on paper. From the Lucas' series "Snapshot Studies" "In August of this year my wife and I moved back to NYC from Melbourne, Australia. We are originally from Sydney, however we lived in Brooklyn from 2015-2019 and planned to be back in the city in 2020, however, we were grounded for a couple of years because of the virus. We had a one week stopover in Los Angeles, staying with friends before flying up to NY. I documented the trip by taking snapshots of scenes that I found interesting or inspiring and then singling out an image from that scene to draw in my sketchbook. Sometimes I was interested by the way the light was captured in the image and sometimes I was justinterested in the shape of things. For example the painting “dynamite” was actually asnapshot of an empty “Miller” can I saw in the grass outside of a bar in Silverlake in East LA. From these sketches I have created this series of 10 acrylic paintings on paper, that I