Dusk on Franklin Street
8 in. x 10 in., acrylic on traditional-depth canvas
$160 unframed
This is my street. In the nineteen years I've lived in the Lakeport area of Laconia, I've gotten to know this sidewalk like the palm of my hand while on my regular warm-weather runs. I know where all the dips and lumps and cracks are, where it's better for knees to leave the sidewalk and run on the road surface, and where I'll hear this or that dog bark as I go by. Last August, on the way home from one of my usual loops, I snapped a pic just as the darkening sky signaled the flickering burst of light from the street lamp at Franklin's intersection with School Street. This nocturne painting captures that thin sliver of the evening where everything starts to go blue-gray right before the darkness settles in.
