A study drawn from the panel's palette card, at its real 40 × 60 cm proportions. Photography follows when the piece is photographed under the north window.

The harbor keeps two lamps lit all night. Their reflections took one pass each; a second pass would have killed them.

• Petrol night#0E2233
• Harbor amber#C98F4A
• Slate wash#5A6B7A
• Deep pine#173432

1. Cradled birch panel, two sealed gesso coats
2. Night ground graded darker toward the top
3. Two amber points, underpainted white so they burn
4. Reflections dragged vertically while wet
5. Resin flood: the lamps go behind glass