Auto shop sign at night

 

With the sun going down so early and me working later these days, it has made for more night paintings in the last little while. In this scene, you see the famous auto shop on Somerled avenue, made famous by a certain watercolour painter over the years. One day I should put one of these in a frame and give it to Joe and Ralph, who are the apparent owners of the business. The clouds and sky were done with just two paints, indo blue (PB60) and pyrol red-orange (PO73). For the clouds it is a dilute version of the orange with a touch of the blue, while the sky is a heavy mix of the blue with a  touch of the orange. The numbers are the pigment codes, since companies use different names for paints, but the code remain the same. Essentially the two paints make variations of neutral purple which are ideal for painting the sky just after the sun has completely gone down. It would have been nice to make more paintings today but the wind chill was quite cold and I just had the light gloves on today. I felt the paint getting a bit slushy, but not to the point where I need to add salt in the water yet. In the winter, I will continue painting outside, in fact the lowest temperature that I painted at was minus 39 Celsius on campus last year.

Auto shop sign at night, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2024 (No. 4155b)