Boardwalk Bar part 22

 I went up to the Studio today with two plans.  Part of my plan was to do more coloring.  The other part of my plan was to pick up and drop off some items, and possibly to build a new watercolor box for myself.  Got everything done.

Once again, only a few cars in the lot, but that doesn't bother me.  The front gate was open and that's all I need.  Down in my space, I cleared my table and took my color proof off the wall.  I had spent a little time looking at my many reference photos for the boardwalk, and concluded that the most common colors for people to wear on the boardwalk are pink, orange, and light blue.  Most of the people in the other photos I have (band in Belmar, interior in Neptune) are in black or dark colors, which I guess made sense for each event, but I want more colorful characters in my bar.  For today I had decided to add more color, including some of those colors I had seen in the boardwalk photos.  I concentrated on the left side panel, and before I was done, I had come up with some color for every space.  Even added a little to the two tv screens.  I put in a few colors over on the right side, but most of this is left to do.  Results of today's work can be seen below:

As for the watercolor box, I had a wooden wine box there in the dining room at home, and decided it might make a good watercolor box, which would be an improvement over the bag I've been carrying into the building each time.  So first I emptied that bag onto my palette table, and divided the watercolor tubes into color groups (browns, blues, etc).  Using some scrap mat board from my table, I created some simple dividers for the box, leaving room for some of my premixed palettes as well.  And I was able to close the box.  Needs more work, but I can find my paint tubes a lot easier now.

For music today I went with a combination of old and new.  I always had a disc of the first Arctic Monkeys album in my Studio set of discs, with some of the demos added to it.  (this can be read about back on October of 2023 on this blog if you want to know more)  Today that home burned disc didn't want to play.  Luckily I had the official first album, called Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, (2006) in my Studio as well, so I played that disc.  Then I followed it up with their second album (disc from the storage box, alphabetically) Favorite Worst Nightmare (2007). The second album still has the same guitar sound as the first, so it's enjoyable enough to listen to, but the songs are just not as interesting.  Perhaps that is because half the first album in redone versions of old songs (known from the demos) they had time to develop over the years, while the second album is all new and had to be created from scratch in a year.  I can see why that first album, plus old demos, made my Studio set, and the second one didn't.