Murder on the Orient Express. . .Whacked and Unwrapped WIP3

I have darkened the background some more and then accentuated the vertical lines by adding darker streaks to create the wet glass effect and draw the eye down to the scene below. Colour is another key way in which I can convey emotion so I am trying to keep to very muted colours which convey the feeling that all the life and colour has been washed away. The colours I am mostly using are raw umber, sepia, naples yellow and indigo. My son says the painting reminds him of a very depressingly rainy day in the UK so I think I'm getting close to the emotive response I'm after. I also angled the flame of the candle so it is slanting away from the scene of the murder to add to the emotional effect of the painting.

Ona