Painting at night for now is mostly due to some long work days this month, laboratory, zoom teach, etc. I contemplated night painting for some time, and then did a series of moonlight paintings for example the
Harvest Moon. I also studied Handprint.com by MacEvoy to learn more about luminence and colour perception in low light or artificial light. To sum up, you paint night scenes darker than day scenes. You also have to find somewhere to sit or stand under street lights, and dress warm, For this painting, I managed to finish most of it on location just some touch ups at home. I made a fairly detailed outline this time, and then it was a kind of paint by numbers. The sky had a dark orange cloud on a dark blue-grey background, and the lights were turned on in the fire station windows. I used digital image adjustment after scanning it to make the painting appear darker, so you can see it on your screen the way I saw it on location. The computer screen will brighten the image and it looks weird, so I tried to simulate the dim light effect.
Somerled Av Fire Tower at Night, 5 x 7.5" cold press, watercolour, February 2021 (No. 2557)
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