Blue and Orange

A cool December evening in Madrid. The sun is setting and I am taking pictures. One is of the entrance to the subway against one of the Torres Kio. 

The orange competes with the reflected blue sky in the glass. I like that combination of orange and blue. 

The other day I read in Karen Margulis' blog about using Caran d'Ache Neocolor II water soluble wax pastels for the underpainting. By complete coincidence, when I visited Porto last week, I saw some sticks in an art store. I buy four. I used two in this as an underpainting. The russet color and the malachite green, a type of turquoise. I like how it turned out. I think I am learning. Slowly, but steadily.