Locomotive 17 (A Glimpse of the Past) Watercolor Cityscape Painting

This watercolor city scene compresses the immediacy of urban transit into a head-on encounter, as the train’s blunt geometry advances through a lattice of wires that read like a nervous system stretched across the sky. Cool blue-violet washes dominate the vehicle’s mass, while the sudden amber of the adjacent car punctures the atmosphere like a flare—an insistence of human urgency against the machine’s steady momentum. The artist’s loosened edges, blooms, and splatters allow the street to dissolve into sensation, suggesting that modern movement is less a clear route than a lived blur of crossings, signals, and near-collisions. In this tension between control (tracks, cables, structure) and seepage (water, pigment, weathered light), the work becomes a meditation on how cities hold us—firmly guided, yet perpetually on the verge of spilling over.