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This is a girlie bar on a run down road on the outskirts of Detroit. The road was lined with closed down businesses including probably this one but I liked the incongruity of the bright pink building amidst the washed out buildings that surrounded it. This is another of my high-contrast, high-saturation paintings of urban America, in this case I was trying to achieve a melancholy beauty with the distant sunset light barely illuminating the scene of urban decay. I was after a strong design by having a bright strip of orange dividing two areas of darker tones but still with fairly saturated colour. The painting is based on a blue/ orange complementary but all the colours were kept warm by using a lot of magenta and violet. Oil on canvas 39" x 15 3/4". There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in earlier posts on this blog........Blogger is not letting me upload a decent photo of this today! It looks better than this!