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This is a building I came across in Knoxville, Tennessee although the title refers to the foreground sign for the building just shown on the far right. I'm interested these days in taking a relatively run down building or street and making it interesting, even beautiful by painting it in a moody atmospheric way using high contrast and high saturation colour although in the final instance they are really tonal paintings. It is based on a blue/orange complementary colour axis and have tried to keep all the colours as warm as possible with the tonal design keyed to the brightest area of the picture which is the cloud above the red building. Oil on linen 20" x 16". There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in earlier posts on this blog.