It adds a lot to that "only people still up late at night" atmosphere that there's so few details. Where's the street lights, cars, fire hydrants, drains, dirt, road markings, signs and discarded bits of trash in the street? The cracks in the sidewalk tiles? There's not even any individual tiles painted - as if the sidewalks are one solid slab of polished concrete. The only real details inside are the people, glasses and the containers in the background. Even that yellow door is very simply illustrated. Where are the lights that shine so brightly on the inside of the bar even?
It's like his paintings seem very realistic at first, but then less so the more you look.
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