The Mural Continues part 5

Once the t-shirt stuff was settled, it was time to get back to painting. Quite a bit had been done since my last session last week- including completely repainting the Main Street bridge (far right in top image) and adding a bit of green along the whole length. Pat settled in on the right side, working on the raised Main Street drawbridge, while I worked the left. Up until now I had been using the Siperstein's paint straight from the can, but today I did a little mixing of various browns and blue, which I employed around the base of the raised rail bridge, the bridge counterweight, wood pilings lining the channel, and above and below the fixed rail bridge at the far left (all shown in the bottom photo). Sometimes these browns represents wood, sometimes the rusty surface of steel. Adding the browns had two effects. First, they help to build layers of space within the composition, assisting the 3D illusion promoted by the perspective. Second, using some of the same colors from the bridge at the far right in and around the bridges on the far left helps to unify the composition as a whole. I quit for the night after that around 8pm, with the daylight fading fast. It's looking good, but the further we get, the more difficult it is, as we have to think a lot more about color choices.