Buck Moon

A few days ago there was another moon called a buck moon, which was just a full moon at a certain time of year. As the painting shows, the moon was about 3/4 tonight, and had an eerie yellow-orange glow. I used a fairly limited palette of indo blue, pyrol orange, perylene green, iso yellow and carbon black (PB60, PO73, PBk31, PY110, PBk6).

Buck Moon 3/4 over Walkley, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2022 (No. 3168b)

 

It was such a cool and pleasant night that I made a few more paintings. The head lamp really helped to see the colours and see the gear in my shoulder bag. The front door of the fire station was casting a grid-like shadow, and the exterior lights were illuminating the wall and red bench. When you see lights at night they create a starburst effect which I tried to emulate in the painting. It looks surprisingly illuminated for a night painting. The palette is much the same as the first painting except for the raw sienna in the building and the accent colours of red (PR254) and green (PG36).

Red Bench NDG Fire Station at Night, watercolour 8 x 10" Strathmore Series 400, July 2022 (No. 3044a)

Certain objects are not very interesting during the day, but they look neat at night like this Bell telephone booth. The booth had an orange-red interior light that cast a salmon-glow on the surroundings. If the booth looks a little crooked that's because it was crooked! I just had to make sure everything else was straight. With more night painting experience I am finding new and interesting colours and lighting conditions. That funny green box off to the left is one of those planter units they installed to make up for a lack of places to sit in the neighborhood. 

Telephone Booth at Night, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2022 (No. 3167b)