A SOLO EXHIBITION BY AERIN
2AM, Aerin, 2020.
24"x24", acrylic on canvas.

I did a couple thumbnails to decide how I was going to alter the photo. As you can see, in all my thumbnails, I still had the car in the foreground. The reason I eventually decided to move it was that I wanted the car to be obviously parked. I purposefully make my paintings devoid of humans and I thought having the car in the foreground would make it look like someone was driving it.

Digital studies have been such a useful tool for me, I use them primarily to quickly and easily decide what colors I want to use, like in this one where I tested out green lights and decided I liked orange better. Although I quite like using green with my pieces featuring purple skies, It didn't capture the mood as well as the orange lights did.


One of the hardest parts of painting the car was proportioning the wheels correctly. The left shows that at first I made them really small. Honestly, they could probably still be bigger on the right. For some reason, my brain just could not see the tires the correct size, haha. Other than that, the car looks really good and I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to pull off this perspective of the car. The red lights were also a challenge, as red is my least used color and I wasn't sure how to make the glow-y illusion. I went with using red for the light falling on the car, and I made the actual lights themselves orange to make them look brighter.
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This painting was based off a photo, although I took quite a few artistic liberties. I loved the color scheme and I wanted to challenge myself to paint a car. Its much harder than it looks!
I was also quite interested in the wet and rainy look, although I ended up not doing that in my rendition.
