After taking in a show at the cultural center, I headed back out for some night painting. It seemed like the perfect evening, not too cold and the snow had stopped. Just a few brush strokes into the painting the snow started coming down though, and I had to work fast and use the metro grocery store overhang to make this painting of the auto shop covered in fresh snow. A giant pile of snow was in the foreground, and a car had light snow covering it, along with the strong lights of the shop illuminating the scene.
Fresh snow auto shop night, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, February 2025 (No. 4271)
From under the Metro grocery store overhang I made this painting of the condo building and purplish sky. The overhang is lined with strong white pot lights, making it look like a UFO or the wing of an airplane.
Condo view under metro, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, February 2025 (No. 4191b)
This was the first one I did, it shows the snow in front of the stores being illuminated by the various neon sign colours, and a passing car. It ended up looking like someone spilled ketchup on the snow! Well, these kinds of paintings are hard to do, the tints are subtle and the whole painting is moist, you can even see snow flakes that fell onto the painting and left little pock marks that look like... snow flakes!
Lights on snow, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, February 2025 (No. 4270b)
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