Underdrawing and reference picture for new Venice painting, 24 x 48 inches, black marker on black paint on canvas. I thought I was going to have no end of trouble with those balconies on the upper right but they don’t look half bad in this picture. Go me!

I don’t remember where it was in Venice but you can see it’s a narrower canal, residential, no gondolas. The gondolas are all fine but they’re about the tourists. I liked seeing the real boats the people who live there use every day. This is the first painting from Venice.