Still trying to get to grips with using red. I put dark colours around the red areas but used an analgous colour scheme which may have diluted the intensity of red that I was looking for so I have started another painting using red in a different way. This is the third time that I have painted this building... one day I'll get it right! I wanted this one to be moody with a strong design focusing on the red so I guess I managed to do that but....
Some parts of this was painted wet-in-wet which I enjoyed doing, indeed I used to paint a lot more this way a number of years ago and I think I need to bring this back again into my work. The building is an adult book store in Detroit but I decided to leave out all the lettering to focus more on the shapes and colour. Anyway it's another one for my Roadsde America series.
Oil on mdf 12" x 12".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in earlier posts on this blog.
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