Big news in NDG, the local auto shop painted their building a new colour. It used to be a wonderful dark red, likely venetian red, which I captured in countless paintings. I saw them scraping and priming the walls white, and Cilei jokingly said that they would paint it grey. Sure enough the next morning the auto shop was a pale cadaverous grey. This afternoon the sky had a hazy orange glow from the rampant wild fires in Quebec. In response to the boring choice of grey I decided to paint the auto shop with an exciting electric blue. Against the eerie amber sky, the imagined blue walls really pop in the painting. I think that if the auto shop owners could see how good their building looks in blue, they would have gone for it.
Auto Shop Blue, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2023 (No. 3468a)
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