Atlas Pizza, Winter Night

Today was a drizzly winter's day with the temperature hovering around zero Celsius. I stopped to make a quick painting of our local pizza joint while I was waiting for the pizza. It was nearly nighttime so the sun was down and the visibility was low. Without my headlamp it was hard to see what I was doing! Two paints that helped me capture the light and dark contrasts were iron oxide red (PR101/PBr7) and carbon black (PBk6). The sky consists of neutral mixtures of indo blue (PB60) and pyrol orange (PO73) ranging from blue at the top to orange at the bottom. 

For awhile I have been using burnt ochre as my brick colour, it is called PR102 which is supposed to signify a natural iron oxide pigment. In reality they are almost all synthetic nowadays. But recently I went back to my special mix of two iron oxide paints. The first one is a tube I bought way back in 2008 in Paris at the Sennelier store on the left bank. The paint is called red brown, and has a rich, rust red appearance. The other one is a paint made in Japan called Iridori burnt ochre. If you follow my blog you know I have about a dozen shades of rust to pick from!

Atlas Pizza, Winter Night, watercolour 5 x 7" hot press, February 2022 (No. 3068a)