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little by little ...

It does not look like much for a weeks work but I had to do some careful drawing as the details were not that clear in the photograph. I even revisited the building to check this ceiling out. I simplified a little and hopefully it will be a clear run from now on. This might be an historical painting as there is a sticker on the building saying earthquake risk. The area is slowly being gentrified.

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some more paint on the canvas

I have taken some liberties in regard to colour matching the photograph, but still at the roughing out stage. Though if I can improve on the image then I'm thinking that's okay because I'm not trying to reproduce a photograph, just making an image that is believable to the experience of standing here, taking a photograph.

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painting red

Have put some paint on a canvas. This will be mostly a red theme. Red can be a little tricky as I don't want any pinks in the bright red, mixing a little yellow with white for the light red seems to work. 

Colour mixing so far has been cadmium red dark medium and light with cadmium yellow medium, titanium white. To darken the red I have used a complimentary colour - Phthalo Green (yellow shade).