This scene, painted some time in the fall of 1999, was done in Algonquin provincial park, Ontario, Canada. I was on a camping trip with friends from Toronto that I had originally met in Spain on the Madrid train. The only interruption was flies, lots of them, I had to paint fast.
The sky was done by blending a deep purple with a pale yellow wet-wet. The purple was achieved with the opaque cerulean blue and the transparent rose matter genuine an a touch of the staining pigment alizarin crimson (notice how the red bleeds out the edge of the cloud, this is property of the staining pigments). The further in the distance, the colours become lighter and more blue by adding more cerulean and french ultramarine blue and less yellow.
Algonquin Vista with Rock and Trees, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 2001 (No. 0342)
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