This 24×36 piece took twenty hours to complete. I started and finished this one while I was struggling to complete Cafe Du Monde, which is pretty crazy if you look at all the detail just in the balconies and ladders. Anyway, you can see I began this piece with a very simple drawing, just using basic shapes and no real detail. The first layer of paint is again thinned out, as you’ll see in all of these New Orleans paintings, my process remains consistent throughout each of them; start out thin with simple block ins and add thicker paint and more detail as the piece progresses. As you can see with this piece, I worked my way from background to foreground which is also something I typically do, unless im particularly excited about something that’s in the foreground.