Jacksonville Buses / by Joe Olney

Jacksonville Buses oil on masonite 36x48x2 $2000

My biggest painting yet. What drew me to painting this was the composition of a graphite drawing I made a few months back. From afar the drawing read as an interesting abstraction of shapes that only slightly reminded me of buses or train cars. So I tried to keep that ambiguity in the painting and not let myself get too tight. In reality, the layout of this Grayhound station is not a perfect square but more like a trapezoid, and in my admittedly "wonky" perspective it's greatly exaggerated. Working on such a big painting was really freeing, and I hope to do many more this size.