Getting out for a quick ride yesterday was difficult with the rainy condition but I found an hour in the late afternoon. Down at the Reno Depot parking lot you have the best
location to paint puddles. In the background is the nursery area where they sell bags of soil and plants.
Reno depot puddle in parking lot, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2024
This yellow dépanneur on Sherbrooke makes for a nice contrast with stormy skies. The clouds were done with a purple mix (PB60 + PV55 + PR179) and a touch of carbon black (PBk6) to flatten it out. Some daubs of blue (PB15) give a sense of impending rain. I painted this scene once before when waiting for vegetables on a snowy night.
Yellow dépanneur stormy sky, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2024
Since the weather was holding I made one more quick study of pylons in light and shadow. The foreground had a layer of dark blue (PB60 + PBk6), but that cut the chroma too much on the pylon. The high chroma pylon in the middle is more on point, its layered with magenta, neon orange and purplish grey. The brown chunks are new 'planter' areas they have been installing on corners... soon it will be growing weeds.
Pylons light and shadow, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2024
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