What goes up and down and has a deadline every day? How about the sun. Here is the early sunset, where the sky was mostly a tangerine orange, a kind of creamsicle colour that faded to blue at the top. The tricky part is the pale cyan, a near grey, that exists between the orange and blue. Below, the Metro grocery store was illuminated with the artificial amber lights. There were still lots of cars in the parking lot.
Amber sunset amber lights, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2024
A few minutes after the first painting, the sky went more coral red with darker blue above, which I did with indo blue (PB60). The coral red is mostly pyrol orange (PO73) with a dab of orange (PO62) at the horizon. It was hard to keep the colours clean because the paint was goopy and everything was soggy.
Coral sunset Metro, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2024
The destination was Fruiterie Nirvana which is open late, you see its front door at the bottom right emitting beams of artificial light onto the side of the apartment next door. The rest of the scene was an eerie blend of dark cyan, blue, grey and green. The palette was a mess by now and visibility was low, its great that these paintings turned out to be remotely good.
Fruiterie Nirvana night side view, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2024
A daunting scene, this one shows the old restaurant on the left, now a community food bank, with the gas station sign turned into a skull, and a very Van Gogh type of sky in the background. Halloween came early in this one, even though its just the last day of September!
Creepy view down Somerled, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2024
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