After work I rode down to Harley street to pick up some bread at Snowdon Bakery, and made these paintings as the sun went down. On the right is the City Fruterie gorcer, and the street is Harley street. Turning right at the end would bring you to the train tracks and then up into the main part of NDG. The local community center made planters and benches as you see in the bottom right of the painting. As usual there was a row of cars, and a constant clang clang clang noise from the commuter train crossing.
Sundown on Harley Street, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2024 (No. 4154)
Turning to leave I saw two black pleather chairs in the field and decided to give it a go. There was only room in the painting for one chair, and I composed it with the commuter train in the background and a strong, central tree element to anchor the composition. The tree colours were made to be very tye-dye style with yellow, orange, magenta, green and blue. Its a bizarre painting, almost surreal despite the fact that it was done on location!
Pleather chair in field, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2024 (No. 4155a)
Surely two paintings was enough, but when I turned to go, the massive flood lights at Raffi auto turned on, creating an eerie glow against the colourful sky. Its one of those paintings where there is no formula, no strategy per say, you just paint it and hope for the best. It turned out to be very dramatic indeed. By now it was nearly dark and time to go home. Actually the weather was so mild I could do these without gloves on.
Raffi lights on at sundown, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, November 2024 (No. 4156a)
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