Northern Lights in Banff
Watercolour and crayon
©2018 Charlene Brown
I had no record of the very occasional
Northern Lights we would see in Banff when I was growing up there. So I’ve used
internet photos that resemble what I remember and placed them in the NE to SE
sky over Banff in the positions they appeared most frequently. And now I have a
record of the very occasional etc…
The main colours used in these paintings
were Indanthrene Blue and Ultramarine Violet. Or maybe Carbazole Violet – I have big wadges of both on my palette and I’m not sure which is
which. I also used a Neon green crayon I
bought 25 years ago as part of a set, and have had almost no use for – well, I mean look at it – where do you
ever see that colour in nature?
