Here's a painting I'm working on based on a few photos I took in Las Vegas... This is Sam's Town Hotel and Casino off the strip. My ultimate goal is to keep the physical energy up in the painting and the color feeling "real" while working from photography which has major limitations for me when it comes to "interesting-ness" and color. Somehow I want to paint more blatantly expressionistic when I'm working from a relatively dull source image like a photograph. I'm trying to capture the black blacks, jarring contrast and saturated colors inside a casino. oil on linen, 40 by 28