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Red Hook paintings... done! (IKEA beat me to it)

Finally, I got back to work on the two views from Red Hook I started a long time ago. Lehigh Valley, aka the Waterfront Museum, started with the original sky I saw - all orange-y brown, but it didn't do anything for the red barge and the great pile of rocks in the foreground. It took some work to get the rocks to look lit up, but not grab all the attention. And, the painting of the cranes... I ended up painting out the leisure boat that was in the foreground. It was grabbing too much attention from the real stars - the blue cranes. Here they are (better views at my website):