Tonight was one of the special full moons called the harvest moon, mostly due to its occurrence around the time farmers would harvest their crops. It was a lot higher in the sky than it appears, next time I will bring some of the 4 x 12" to compose it on the vertical. That condo on the bottom is where we live, although that is the top two floors. Since I am missing pyrol orange (PO73) I tried benzi orange (PO36) which has the identical hue angle, but mixed differently with indo blue (PB60). But it made an almost black mixture, and fading to brown and cream colour. It ended up looking pretty intense though, and the three different sources of light are obvious (moon, window and street lamp). If I had to paint the midnight sky then this combo wold be perfect (PO36 + PB60).
Moon over Condo Dark Sky watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2023 (No. 3558a)
Down the street, the moon was hanging over the fire station. The sky is dark blue in this painting, I mixed indo blue (PB60) with pyrol red (PR254), then switched it to phthalo sapphire (PB15) with some magenta (PR122). The detailed colour notes are mostly for my sake, as I try to refine the best colour mix to paint a night sky. At any rate, it is an effective painting, it really creates and eerie glow. I think I will pick up more pyrol orange next time I am at the art store.
Moon Over Fire Station Dark Blue Sky, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2023 (No. 3559a)
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