The Alley Art of Larry Snode



Colored pencil drawing of a building I found down a Salt Lake City alley.

"A Nice Place to Visit but..."
Prisma colored pencil on mat board
40"X 32"

Colored pencil drawing of the view of an alley with many brick styles and secrets.

"No Farking Here"
Prisma colored pencil on mat board
40"X 12 1/2"
Colored pencil drawing of the backside of a couple of store fronts on east Main Street.

"Below Main"
Prisma colored pencil on mat board

Colored pencil drawing of the view of an apartment building from inside Shaffer's Diner.

"View from the Diner"
Prisma colored pencil on mat board
32"X 24"
Colored pencil drawing of what used to be Eddie's Shoe Repair, won a First Place Award at the Alliance Art Center's 2006 Art Fest at the lakes of Mount Union College.

"Eddie's Shoe Repair"
Prisma colored pencil on tan mat board
30"X 11"
Colored pencil drawing of an old deserted and run-down factory. Judged 'Best of Show' at the Alliance Art Center's 2002 Art Fest at the lakes of Mount Union College.

"that's progress"
Prisma colored pencil on mat board
18"X 12"



"Alley Shapes"
Prisma colored pencil
on mat board
20"X 16"
Colored pencil drawing of an alley in a run-down section of town. Award an Honorable Mention at the Alliance Art Center's 2003 Art Fest at the lakes of Mount Union College.

"Alley Mosaic"
Prisma colored pencil
on mat board
22"X 26"
Colored pencil drawing of the backside of the alley behind the Market House.

"Behind the Market House"
Prisma colored pencil on mat board
18" X 15"
Colored pencil drawing back door at the Coral Lounge

"Back Door at the Coral"
Prisma colored pencil on mat board
19" X 14"
I don't know about you but I've seen enough warm, glowing cottages to last a lifetime. I don't care to imagine that I can smell bread baking in the kitchen or that the people inside are drinking hot chocolate by a glowing fire and I sure don't want to waste my time trying to see how many "N's" I can find per painting.

Thomas Kinkade refers to himself as the "painter of light." Well I'm "the painter of bricks." For the last six years my passion has been to render alleys and other city scenes in prisma colored pencil. I suppose my work falls under the catagory of the "ash can" school of art but personally I like to think of it as Kafka meets Disney.

My wife says I do alleys because they won't let me on the main streets. She might have a point but whatever the case I love to paint and draw these old buildings. These buildings are not just facades, they have character, they've been around and if they could talk, man would you hear some stories.

My alleys are a world of bricks and broken glass, of dumpsters and drain pipes and of buildings which were once engaged in the busy commerce of a thriving encomony now gone.

Pen and ink drawing with pencil shading entitled The Viaduct

"THE VIADUCT"
Pen & Ink with graphite shading on illustration board
8 1/2" X 21"



LARRY SNODE
797 SUNSET DRIVE
ALLIANCE, OHIO 44601

E-MAIL: larry_snode@sbcglobal.net