Another work in progress that has stymied me for a few years - this one is all about lighting effects....It's a blue-grey rainy day - she has this maroon umbrella, she's wearing a yellow raincoat, the folds of which do a bounced-light thingy to create sort of orange coloured folds...from the puddles from below we get some sky-coloured lights...

i set myself a lighting puzzle of nutzy complexity...Eventually i went i bought a slick yellow rain coat from a thrift store to photograph it in real bluish rain...but couldn't figure out how to get umbrella fx....so gotta get or make a maroon umbrella...

i could fake it all, but where i want to go with my painting is a sense of the complexities of light and shadow....this is one of many gates i'll have to pass through to get there...