Three Train Engines

Three Train engines.
Acrylic on Masonite. 48" x 36".
(sold)

The trains kept getting larger- this canvas is four feet wide. I really like the colors and the bold graphics on the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Santa Fe engines. I wish Amtrak had come up with a jazzy color scheme- maybe that would increase their ridership.
My reference photo for this was a 5 x 3 inch postcard I bought at the museum, a stock photo of these engines lined up in an urban train yard. I repositioned them out on a rural prairie and naturally had to throw in some buffalo, partially to keep this from being too symmetrical. Adding diagonal clouds also served to add suggested motion kept the composition from being too still.