The gas station on Sherbrooke near campus has a lot of really bright lights which can make for some decent night painting. One, there is a light above my head so I can see my paints, and two, the scenery is illuminated in the middle ground. Without a moon, the sky was an inky black that I made with an unruly combination of indo blue, pyrol orange, quinacridone purple and blue green phthalocyanine paints. In other words, dark blue, red-orange, dark purple, and dark blue-green. When using heavily salted salt water the dark colours can dry dull, but with that mixture it retained the inky blue-black qualities of the night sky.
Gas station night lights, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2025
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