For artists:I want to paint (acrylic) a night scene w street lamps glowing & am wondering about?

wondering about painting the actual lights, if i paint with the light acrylic over the dark night sky the gradient from light to dark would turn out poorly, or if i should leave extra space around the lamps to fade from glow into dark night sky? thanks!!!!For artists:I want to paint (acrylic) a night scene w street lamps glowing %26amp; am wondering about?
Whichever way you do it, be sure nothing else is as light. Everything else must be darker in hue. Squinting helps you determine which area(s) is (are) the lightest. The sharpest contrast between light and dark pigments will translate into very bright. Some Hudson River artists used the effect to make their setting Sun seem so bright it was hard to look at. In fact, if white paint were put next to it, you could see the Sun was ';darker.'; For artists:I want to paint (acrylic) a night scene w street lamps glowing %26amp; am wondering about?
acrylic paint is less forgiving than oil, meaning you have time with oil paint to shade or tint. when painting the first step is your background. they are additives for acrylic paint to slow down the drying time. although night time seems pitch black you dont use black for night scenes. black is the absence of color so no matter how dark it is there is a level of light. i would use the darkest blue shaded with black or a paynes grey to get the effect you want. cover the entire canvas with it so you have that color on all your subject matter to be painted. next as you paint your street lamps you want to find your focal point that will be the brightest using pure white or gesso....then tinting the blue with it moving away from it. the further you are from the light source the darker it recedes. keep in mind how light falls over objects and produces shadows on surrounding objects.
Either way is viable. If you load the brush with both the light and dark tones and apply to the canvas - adding more tone if needed when dry - you would achieve an interesting fanned gradiation of tone effect.