alleyway at night

i had never done a city scene before and never really thought about doing them.. but looking at paintings by august macke got me interested

 i started the painting using only turpentine and made a rough sketch like under-painting using grey and crimson lake.

next i thought about adding colours. when i applied that lemon yellow i thought i would go with it and maybe some red to give it a fauve look. but i dropped this idea as i was not confident enough to carry out this approach.

 so the next thing i did was using oil now i made solid/final shapes so i could paint it over later.

and the completed painting alleyway at night, oil on board.