Metro Parking Lot with Sunflowers

On the way back from work, I ordered a pizza and had only 16 minutes to complete this painting before the pizza was ready. I came close but went over perhaps 2 minutes. In all these years I never knew how long it took me to do a painting! 

To capture the busy parking lot, a number of cars were included the bottom of the composition without much sense of where the actual parking lot really is. The jumble of cars provides a metallic base from which all of the foliage emanates from. Each tree had a different shade of green. The dark greens are perylene green with isoindo yellow (PBk31 and PY110), the lighter ones are similar but with some phthalo green (PG36) or yellow (PY175). The sunflowers were the real star of the show, but they are composed in a small section on the bottom right in order to show you how they appear in the setting of a parking lot on Somerled Avenue. I signed it Peter because van Gogh sometimes signed Vincent, especially his sunflower paintings.  

Metro Parking Lot with Sunflowers, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2021 (No. 2815)