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ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING FOR SALE, 48" x 60" on Gallery Wrap Canvas

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NARRATIVE
I dreamed and drove and saw, right at skyfall, a comet, and an observatory just beyond or just in front of a city full of stars, a double vision, a skewed perspective with everything in motion, of Hollywood action and a man in red, a delightful, happy, vivid, Los Angeles day, with towering green palm trees and tall buildings of glass reflecting sky blue purple, billboards, California girls, cars and buses on crazy freeways flying most every which way on this just another typical day.

BACKGROUND
"Skyfall Double Vision" continues my "I Dreamed America" series with two perspectives of downtown Los Angles -- one of the Los Angeles skyline from the Griffith Observatory in Burbank and the other coming into downtown on the freeway (I-10) headed towards Santa Monica. This painting combines over a dozen photographs from...

I DREAMED AMERICA - Visionary Landscapes of the West and Beyond Art James West email: artweststudio@outlook.com website: art-west.pixels.com I've loved America since I was a kid. The beauty, the grandeur. Yeah, the corny stuff -- from sea to shining sea, purple mountains majesty and all that. I used to travel a lot with my folks and have been to 48 contiguous states. I used to gaze out the window of our old '58 Chev and imagine putting it all to paint, I dreamed America! I remember sitting out in front of the Tetons in the mid 60s pushing some paint around on a piece of masonite. To be a painter you have to paint! And folks now consider me a master oil painter. I've been painting the West for over 40 years and a...