Row houses are a great source of unending artistic inspiration. They just kind of stack up together nicely in unusual shapes and colours, randomness hard to naturally recreate. And every place has it's own style too.


I took a shot at painting some bright coloured rows of the buildings lining the canals in Amsterdam...a pretty popular subject in all the souvenir shops. Split into two sections, the underpainting is just loose square shapes of acrylic blocked in. Then overtop of that, I created a bunch of texture by dragging oil pastels over the toothy board. And I threw in a twinkly Van Gogh sky just because.