 This picture includes a boy with a tire in what looks to be a abandon town  Behind the boy is what seems to be an abandon brick building  Without the shadow there would not be a lot of eye movement and not a lot of the space on the right side of the picture  The light source is clear in the painting because the shadows are all going the same way  Without the shadow on the street be

 This painting is mostly composed of dark colors to set the mood of the painting to show that he is in an abandon town with nobody to help him  In the painting there are a ton of straight lines but there are some curved lines which brings interest to the painting  I believe that the focal point in this painting is the boy with a tire and the large fence in the left corner

 The that Hughie lee smith is trying to show us reflection of his life because the boy in the who look a lot like Hughie lee smith  I believe that this is a nice painting for him to make because it is not like the other painting he makes but it also is like the other paintings because they are self portraits and this is a little bit like that except that this has a little bit more of a back ground to it

 I believe that hughie lee smith made this panting in representation of him self or of his life because a lot represent him self and I think this one does too.