I spent a hot day in my studio today working on another alley picture from Capitol Hill. This one is from a lovely walk in early spring. I loved the color of the garage at right, the many signs on the telephone pole, and the color and odd shape of the tall building. Plus, the shadows, of course.  The pole was problematic as it is almost right in the middle, but I couldn’t move it and maintain the light and shadows on the signs. So I left it as it is. It’s not quite centered!  The color scheme here is green, red orange, and blue violet. I used all of these colors in the shadows and dark places as well as in the telephone pole.  You can see the colors I started out with in the underpainting. They really helped me and there are little pieces that show through here and there. The sky color was quite unusual, but I thought it would relate to the color of the garage.

This is the third of my alley pictures in my Insider’s Washington series. I just picked up the 6 framed Georgetown Canal pictures and they look great!

No Parking, 20 x 24, UART 400

Underpainting