This is more or less the view I had while unlocking the bike from the rack on campus. Although the colours were embellished slightly, these trees had bright magenta flowers, with olive and green foliage. Magenta is essentially hot pink, like flamingo pink, and the pigment PR122 is the closest thing to being magenta. True magenta is not possible to recreate with paint, although it can be created on a digital display, if you go and search 'magenta' you will see it on your device. The PR122 pigment is roughly half way between magenta and red. Purple is actually dark magenta, the pigment PV23 is exactly on the hue angle of magenta but very dark, it ends up looking like grape juice concentrate. Its pretty rare to see magenta on location, at this time of year there are plenty of trees with pink flowers at least for a week or so.
Flowering trees on campus, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, May 2025
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