Carnival In the Sky
This painting is of a couple of apartment buildings near Lake Michigan in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. There is still a lot of beachfront and park land in accordance with Daniel Burnham's plan, but there are many places in Rogers Park where the buildings go right up to the water affording residents some really nice views of the lake. There are the occasional 1920s high rises poking up above the 3-story buildings.
Since I did this piece around the time of the Mardi Gras Carnival season, I did kind of a tribute to the season, which in my mind is superior to Christmas.
42"X24" | OIL ON CANVAS | 2005