Damn kids

Weird... I had to do a double then triple take. I thought it was an animated .gif. I could a swore the water in the lower right moved.

Thanks so very much!!

Yeah, someone else pointed out that the shadows don't quite match up, but, heck, I'm happy with that. I for sure worked from a photo -- wasn't about to sit in the middle of the intersection for three weeks with a 22x30 piece of cold-pressed paper, not in this rain and graupel. But it was looking a bit too much like a CAD architectural rendering. I like that shadow wonkiness. 😂

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Wow, thanks so much!!! That's getting my day off to the right start 😊😊

Really, thank you so much!

Thanks for asking, and specifically about the paint.

The red of the full house is, if anything more intense than this. So especially as the Sennelier paints I like to use are not real saturated like, by contrast, Daniel Smith or Winsor & Newton, I was wondering how I was going to pull it off.

Did a lot of tests before I came up with a plan of a base layer of French vermilion, a really hot, orangey red -- which ended up being several base layers, one on top of the other, to make it seem strong enough. Then I laid a glaze of alizarin crimson over it to make it a bit darker, take some of the heat off.

I liked where that was going, and kept doing it, layer after alternating layer, really for days, until it just didn't seem to be getting any redder. So I call it Terminal Red.

That's a very inside baseball walkthrough of this piece. Normally, I like stuff that's low saturation and colors that are pretty dialed back, which tends to be how we roll out here in the foggy Sunset District by the ocean...anx in general a more, uh, watercolory look. Now if you like more saturated, intense colors, I'd point you towards the brands I mentioned above, or M Graham, which is another set I use: beautiful paints, a good value, and honey-based so they don't dry out.

Incredible light and atmospheric perspective! Wow.

Thank you for the feedback :)

Absolutely awesome, had to look twice to check if it‘s photo. But then, the shadows of the various poles are revealing, as this is not how they would be created in daylight.

In my head that's a small toddler who's just discovered the light switch in their room

Must be an old photo you saw on Google street view or somewhere else. Friend of mine has owned this place for the last few years, and had it painted this intense color shortly before the pandemic. The house painter kept asking if he was sure, over and over again.

And as far as watercolors go, this is the first time I've pushed them this far. Many many layers of French Vermilion and alizarin crimson.

It's the best! Well maybe not the best, but it's good for us artists.

Speaking of which, do you ever attend SF Sketchers meetups? I'm the organizer for the Sunset Sketchers...we are sort of a subset group, meeting on the west side. Msg me for more info of you want.

Alright where’s my divine confetti, I have a headless to re-kill.

I am closing in on my end game so if l meet up with him in whatever realm we find ourselves in then l will surely inform him.

Hell to the yeah, that is a great looking house right there

Same I was like wtf I walk past that shot all the time

Thank you🙌

i love this, gives me undertale vibes

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Someone in an SF group on another platform dug up a 2015 picture, reminding me how it used to be a pale faded blue. Totally different vibe. My friend Thorsten, shortly after he moved in, decided it needed a bit of pop. He said the house painter kept asking, "Are you sure??"

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Pixel art is great! I appreciate peace music and art perfect too see, Truly made my day