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Ray Patrick
Hermosa Beach Bus, 2026
Gouache on paper
7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
Unframed
From the artist's studio, 2026
$400 + $25 shipping in the US
Ray Patrick
Gouache on paper
7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
Unframed
From the artist's studio, 2026
$400 + $25 shipping in the US
An orange bus pulled up on a wide beach street, with a woman walking the kerb in the left foreground, parked cars behind, and the sea closing the far end of the road.
The street recedes to a vanishing point just left of centre, and the lamp standards step down in height along it to carry the distance. The bus is the one large mass and it sits hard right, balanced by the walking figure at the far left.
A deep ultramarine sky over pale sand and cream in the road. The bus is cadmium orange — the only hot colour in the picture, and it carries the whole composition.
The bus is drawn more than painted, its windows and panels struck in with quick dark strokes over the orange. The figures are two or three marks each; the lamp posts are single vertical pulls, unbroken from top to bottom.
Gouache on paper. Matte and opaque, with the pale road laid over the darker ground rather than lifted out of it. Unpainted margins on all four sides.
Lower right, raypatrick, in orange-brown with the letters widely spaced, running along the kerb line.
The bright orange busses in Hermosa Beach created such a contrast from everything that they demanded visual attention. I guess that's why I couldn't get enough of them and painted as many as I could. Now mind you, I never rode one...