Car in Parking lot Winter, Bayfield Hall

Painting at night is always a challenge, and painting and night int he winter even more so. This was perhaps my first attempt at the feat, a painting of a car in a snowy parking lot at night. In the parking lot there were tall, powerful lamps illuminating the scene, which created a distinctive shadow underneath the car, and cast-shadows from the snow piles. The tops of the snow piles had a bright glow, while the background was a dark blue and brown. One thing that helps a lot is to have white spaces between the elements. In watercolour, white is just the paper showing through. The white spaces separate the areas of paint which prevents them from blurring together. If you look at the top right area you see where the brown trees ran into the snow pile, and the red taillight ran into the snow on the back window. None the less, this is one of the more memorable paintings I did at the time. Another neat example were the day/night paintings of a basketball net.

 Car in Parking lot Winter, Bayfield Hall,  watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 2002