When the sun goes down everything becomes dim and takes on a progressively orange glow. At the beginning of doing this painting the face of the fire station was a pale yellow, about 10 minutes later it was this glowing tangerine. TO get the tangerine glow, isoindolone yellow (PY110) was applied in a thin wash over the yellow ochre base, which was done more as an adjustment to the light conditions. The shadow side was yellow ochre (PY43) and umber (PBr7) with a touch of perylene green PBk7) to get that rich shadow yellow. Other than the sky, there was no blue used in the painting, all yellow, orange green and some rust. The sun light playing off the yellow brick resulted in a toasty, radiant glow.
Fire Station Sundown, NDG, 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, May 2021 (No. 2667a)
With each painting I learn more and make adjustments to the palette setup. This version has caput motum (PR101) a very useful dark dusty red earth, and perylene maroon (PR179) a high chroma earthy red located just to the left of indo blue (PB60). My old favorite phthalo blue-green (PG7) is back. The whole top row is meant for 'mixing' between each other to create browns, shadows, greens and darks. The bottom row has 6 high chroma paints for highlight colours, and off to the side, carbon black used for darks like in the tree shadows or window shadows.
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