Greetings! 
In the last six weeks of this eight week email series, we've actually covered about 18 months in the development of William Dubin's current body of work . And, because Dubin paints seven days a week, each featured painting is chosen from a group of equally stellar works. I mention this just to ensure that you, our valued reader, can appreciate the scope and breadth of this body of work.
4th Ave Underpass at Night, #2 sees the artist returning to Tucson for his favorite subject; the Old Pueblo Trolley. However, Dubin is now incorporating one significant new feature - artificial illumination in a nighttime setting. The ability to convey near blinding brightness using just the unadorned watercolor paper, surrounded by carefully chosen pigments, was shown to dramatic effect in last week's painting, and here is used not so much for intense drama as it is to create a setting.
Let's hear from the artist on this subject:
"The Tucson trolley operates alongside cars and trucks, so I had been painting these as part of the trolley's environment, and it was an easy step to photograph at twilight when they turned on their head lamps which both illuminate the scene and provide an exaggerated light bounce off the camera lens.
"From the first painting I did in this series, I realized this illusion was one I was seriously interested in, and one I wanted to develop fully, and so I've worked with numerous subjects and locations to continue to develop this."
This painting has been committed to a national exhibit in San Francisco following our show, and also will serve as the cover of our upcoming book, William Dubin - Urban Realism, such is the strength of the painting.
4th Ave Underpass at Night, #2
22 x 15 1/2"
Original watercolor
6530 E. Tanque Verde #160
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