Boardwalk Days part 55
As I reach the end of this process, I am very excited to see how this will end up. I know more or less what will happen, having done two other copies of this in full color, but this is the final version. The front door was wide open, and there were some people I didn't know hanging out on the first floor, but I ignore them. Went down to my space in the basement, then the men's room there in the basement. It was very dark, just a faint flicker in the overhead fluorescent lights. Maybe the switch wasn't properly on. When I flicked the switch, there was no light. That faint flicker was the light fully on. That won't do. That flicker gave me just enough light to take care of my business, then I reported it to the office. They knew about it, said it would probably be fixed over the weekend. So back to work.
Cleared my table, got the color proof in progress, and continued my work. One thing I noticed right away was that the large blue sky was looking a little blotchy, perhaps some drying that happened after I put it away. I may have to go back and add some more of my sky blue color. That will wait for another day. My plan for today was some other cool colors, all worked out on other copies. I started with a medium blue (sort of like an ultramarine, but this set of pans is not labeled) and used it for a lot of clothing on the boardwalk, the ocean, then an unlabeled green (halfway between an emerald and a mint) for more clothing, and a lot of trim on Convention Hall. The changes are very noticeable, as you can see in the photo below:
No Molly there, but I did have my rock/pop book of discs, so figured I would listen to that. However, the discs I tried would eventually stop during songs. Was this a problem with my disc player, or the home burned discs? Since this happened with multiple discs, I tend to think it is more the player, which I have had for a few decades (I know I've had this one since before we were building tables) but I like to use the scientific method to eliminate variables and I can do some of that at home.
I exited the building on the first floor (taking advantage of public restroom with lights) and discovered that the people I saw when I came in were there to take down the show on the first floor. Time flies I guess.

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