working title

I don't yet have a proper title for the painting that I am working on. The building - part of the Spinningfields development which faces onto Deansgate - houses a bank, offices and a restaurant. I took the photo which I am working for as the light changed at Dusk on an early winter evening. I am taking artistic liberties with the colours but trying to retain something of the feel.



At the time I took the photo, the news was full of talk of nationalising banks and the death of consumerism and consequently, the High Street. The image of this modernist building looming above anonymous female figures appealed to me in this context. (I decided to remove the third figure because she wasn't on the path and thus wouldn't suggest the lostness that I wanted to capture).

At the moment, I am worrying about how to get the colours right in the ceiling of the building around the lights and how to capture the trees on the bottom right of the picture.