With the high heat and humidity I struck out at night to make a cool painting of the auto shop. To paint at night I use a head lamp to see the colours and the palette which helps judge the values and hues. These kinds of paintings look weird when they are in progress because the blank paper contrasts the darker elements. Then when the scene starts to fill in, the light highlights start to pop, like the strong bar light on the auto shop on the left, the reflections off the cars and gas pumps, and the various windows in the neighborhood illuminated from within. The car near the front looks pretty mangled, I guess it needs to get some repairs from the auto shop! Actually the car looked fine in real life, it was just hard to do the brushwork considering how dark it was even with the head lamp. Maybe I'll do a few more night paintings during the heat wave, the sunflowers will start to grow outside of the metro which are neat to paint.
Night Scene Auto Shop, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2023 (No. 3485b)
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