 Hi, my name is Adrian Coleman. I make watercolor paintings on paper and I work in Fork Green. So my paintings are influenced very much by my day job in architecture. And I look at the city, particularly Brooklyn, in a variety of ways, either straight on perspectives and other times using sort of more diagrammatic imagery that's a little bit tongue-in-cheek. Some of my paintings are basically sort of composites of views from sketches and photographs. The straight on perspectives basically are real scenes that I've taken photographs or sketch and I sort of rework them and invent little bits, exaggerate little bits. So I go to a place, I make drawings, I take photographs, but then when I'm at home I really sort of mish-mash and sample them a little bit. I never really make very detailed sketches ahead of time. It's always kind of figured out along the way. The thing about watercolor which I think distinguishes it from other types of painting, in particular oil painting, is that it has a connection to drawing which is very clear. And that has to do with both how transparent it is but also how it's very immediate. My paintings are very much about just sort of depicting everyday life in Brooklyn and people who don't fit into that category. One thing I hope is that I hope people see the humor in them. I mean in some sense they broach very serious topics but at the same time I love this place and there's a lot of absurdities about it and I hope those come across in the paintings as well.