Some bright abstracts

These two paintings were painted very quickly, and just came from nowhere. I had been reading about artist Pierre Soulages, who painted a lot in black and was known as "the painter of black".  I have never painted with black before, and quite liked his abstracts.  The backgrounds are following a week of experimenting with various coloured underpaintings.  I must have needed a colour fix.  The photos don't do the colours justice as usual - the reds are much stronger.

The old wharf

Cafe scene