Ivory tower at night

 

Once again those administrators were in their offices with the lights on, working late at night. I was just a lowly professorial-peon working after hours to get tomorrows slide show ready, while they are no doubt up there making sure the next memo is typo free. Or perhaps someone just left the lights on? Actually, I had an early meeting up in one of those rooms so maybe we were the ones who left the lights on. At any rate, I managed to do this painting with my guantlet mitts, it was actually quite warm but I wanted to practice setting up my gear and completing a painting, kind of like painting with oven mitts. The painting turned out to be quite colourful considering it was a night scene. The sky is a mix of dark blue (PB60) and red-orange (PO73)... for the clouds the mix leans to the orange, for the dark sky the mix leans to the blue. Carbon black was used to create the other dark colours including the bricks, roof, sidewalk, road and trees with their remaining leaves.

Ivory tower at night, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2024