Terrace of a Café at Night

The café terrace at Arles under its gas lamp: a wedge of yellow awning, white-topped tables, a waiter in a long apron and a handful of late drinkers, with the cobbles taking the light in short orange strokes. Above the rooftops the sky is deep blue and pricked with white stars, and a dark tree leans over the street beyond.

The cobbles run to a few hundred pieces of much the same orange-and-blue flecking, so leave them until last. Finished size 61 x 45.7cm.