Choosing the Color of the Light

You can see the problem (I hope!)  I had to choose a palette for the painting and the color of the light -- warm light bulbs or cooler natural light or many other configurations -- which would determine the entire mood of the painting. 

When I started sketching out the painting, before the flowers were installed, there was ample natural light flooding the space, which made the turbine and steam plant appear in cool blue-gray and green-gray tones.  Warm light came from the bulbs and was reflected around the fixtures and along the upper deck of the turbine.  My plan was to use this as the base painting, add the flowers when they were installed and then be able to finish the painting in a few days since the base was done.

The base painting I'd done before he installation of flowers

First pass once the flowers were installed, lights fixtures on

Two problems cropped up once the flowers were installed --one, the warm lights were so bright that they made the flowers look very dark and two, heavy rain reduced the light coming from outside.

All of which is to say that I had to make a choice today.  I brought in a new light to shine on the flowers, I turned off the bright fixtures on the turbine (and then painted them out of the painting!) and this is where the painting stands now. I changed the color of the turbine where it's closest to me from blue-gray to a warmer putty color, as the new light plan shifted its tone.  Feeling very good about the changes!

 Still a work in progress!