Note: I meant to post this Tuesday, April 26, but never got to it. Whoopsie. Probably because I still have yet to dig up the original photo files.

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I usually get up about 5:30 or 5:45 to go and work out with my dad and this other guy. The rest of the week, I tend to get up between 6:30 and 7.

Since I haven’t been painting much lately (it’s been a month since my last piece!) that I have decided that on the days I don’t work out, I should get up at the same time and paint instead of sleep in. Sleep is nice, but if I can spend an hour painting before getting ready for work, that’s better than not painting at all. I feel like any effort is better than none.

I had one canvas that I had already transferred a drawing to, but it was the same subject as last time, with a different view. I didn’t want to do the same thing two times in a row with it being so long since I had painted, so I dug through my reference photos to find something different, and found two pieces to transfer to canvas, since that was all I had time for today.

I shot the reference photo way back sometime last year at the old H.G. Hill shopping center on Charlotte Pike(?) in Nashville right before it was demolished to make way for a new shopping center. It used to be a Bank of America. They tore it down and built a new office building and moved BoA to the other side of the parking lot.

This next shot is the same building, from a different angle. You can see the famous golden arches in the distance. Yep, there’s a Mickey D’s next door. I wonder about the legality of including the McDonald’s logo in a painting. I’ve included logos in paintings before, but that was about 10 years ago, and based on a photo I took in a ski town in Italy.