An Apartment Building Portrait from Seattle, Washington

by Jennifer Skopp

An artist who created abstract murals for a new Seattle, Washington apartment building, asked Jennifer Skopp to paint this “Apartment House Portrait,” to be a gift for the developer of this building.

This apartment building is on the corner and has seven floors. The windows are quite large. The front of the building has two adjacent sections. The right section is further out and closer to the sidewalk. The left section, which has the main entrance, is further back, so there is more space in front of the doors. There are two stone benches on each side of the main entrance. The building has two colors, which are pale gold and light, brick red. The side of the apartment house is much longer than the front.

Jennifer chose to show the front and side of the apartment house. On the side there are two rows of flowers and shrubs on each side of the sidewalk. The right section of the front of the building has a garden in front of it. On the side of the sidewalk that is closer to the street, there are two garden beds. One of them has a small tree. For both sides, on the outside of the sidewalk, Jennifer painted short hydrangeas.

Jennifer did not contain this House Portrait in a rectangle. The corner of the sidewalk on the bottom, juts out beyond a solid greenish blue rectangle. The top of the apartment house is taller than the circular shapes of the sky. Some of the cumulus clouds also reach beyond the border of the house painting.

For the inside of the windows Jennifer used a lot of blues, greens and purples. She repeated these colors throughout with an accent of red.