"The View" by Lesley Spanos. Oil on 6 x 6" Gessobord panel. Copyright ©2009, all rights reserved. My answer to Karin Jurick’s Different Strokes City Rooftops challenge. Thank you, Karin, for another versatile reference photo. The shot was taken from her hotel room in San Francisco,...

"Telegraph Hill" by Lesley Spanos. Acrylic on paper. Copyright ©2009, all rights reserved. This was one of those crazy weeks when I thought I’d never get anything done for the current Different Strokes From Different Folks challenge hosted by Karin Jurick. My first mistake was forgetting...

"Madison Avenue" by Lesley Spanos. Oil on Gessobord panel, 6 x 6". Copyright ©2009, all rights reserved. Here’s another painting for Karin Jurick’s Different Strokes From Different Folks painting challenge. View Larger MapGoogle Street View of the location. You can move around...

“Tennessee Walker” Oil painting on gessoed Arches paper, 6 x 6″ Copyright Lesley Spanos 2008, all rights reserved. I don’t think she’s really from Tennessee. I just like the name. This is another one from Karin Jurick’s “Different Strokes From Different Folks”...

“Waiting Shadows” Oil on canvas panel, 5 x 7″ In last week’s painting of the US Capital building, I struggled with the cars, and never could get them right. So I decided I needed to do some visual research on cars. I look at cars every day, but I don’t see them. I only glance...

Acrylic painting of the Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago by Lesley Spanos. Copyright 2008, all rights reserved. “Da Bean” 12 x 9″ acrylic on panel Talk about being late – this one was supposed to be done by October 8 so I could send it to Karin Jurick for her Week 5 challenge on...