Outside the window no 2

Another version of the same view. This one started with some dribbles on canvas as somewhere to start from. Messing with a cold and a warm colour.

But the tree just wanted to make a reappearance, and the block behind it.

I liked the links that seem to form between the tree and the dribbles underneath. Like kind of dancing shadows. So I wanted to preserve the transparence of the layers to let them continue to show through. The block looked too vague. I wanted it more angular. Adding the felt tip pen made it more urban and added another style of marks.

The colours (watered down gouache mostly) had rather gone their own way. I wanted greater definition of the block, and by contrast the tree was too brown and tree-like...so this came next:

Losing some of the pen marks, but enjoying the lines of the block, and the flat tree shape, but the yellow lower section bothers me. Thinking of unifying the non-tree ground so it all gets a layer of blue:

And the tree got a tinge of pink as contrast.