Atlas Pizza night

 It was a quiet night on Somerled Avenue, just a few people popping into the Pizzaria before it closed. In the winter, the sky has a dull purple colour, with violet clouds. The two colours can be easily made with indo blue (PB60) and pyrol orange (PO73). Using other blues and oranges will not work, they produce browns, and using magenta paint makes it too purple. I kind of discovered the combination by accident and have used it ever since. For the dark brick colour I usually mix red ochre (PBr7/PR101) with carbon black (PBk6) and some dark red (PR179). It helps to have a portable light, I use a head lamp but worn around the neck pointing down to the painting.

Atlas Pizza night, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2025