Night View

I'm always fascinated by our nights and artificial lighting, especially street lights, and the lights from inside windows in otherwise darkened buildings. I've done a few works in the past of these scenes so thought I'd try a couple in my daily paintings. The top one is 8x10 and is a view of 82nd street in Seattle, on the way to my house, facing east. It will need a little matte varnish at some point as dark patches are a challenge to get all the surfaces working. Also did a smaller, 6x8, of the parking lot at Gage Academy in Seattle, from a photo taken one night as I was leaving a class. The rear of my Scion XB little boxy car is peaking out on the right. 

Now on painting 46 in 48 days. Keeping the pace up and still making use of all the scenes I've wanted to try out in paint.