Muto's Minis #4

This mini was inspired by my bathroom window. Any cogs turning? "She came in through the bathroom window..." I hope this painting is easier to understand than that song.

Several times I have tried to capture on film a fantastic moment that occurs in the bathroom of my dorm most nights at sunset. The sun cannot be seen from the window, so I am not sure how all the colors get there, but here is my guess. The sky turns a dark blue as the sun is setting and there may be a bit of pink at the bottom of the sky. The amazing part is that this pink is made bolder by the red of the tail lights of cars in the parking lot. The blue and pink mix to form a spectacular, easy-transitioning color switch. It is something very hard to achieve with a brush that can easily be imitated with a gradient tool in a photo editing program like gimp. Finally, the overhead lights in the parking lot give off a yellow-orange glow which is diffused through the textured glass of the window, creating little golden specks all over the brilliant colors of the sunset.

I tried to imitate the effect in slightly abstract way in this painting.