After some technical problems with the blog I have finally returned. This painting was done in Kundai, a small town north of Kyoto, made famous for its fire-festival and the hot springs spas. I walked up a winding mountain road and saw this old truck in a clearing, just beyond the truck is a deep valley and a steep tree lined hill seen in the background. The truck is old and rusted and covered in a green moss and trees. I liked how the truck seemed to be absorbed by the environment.
It is always hard to paint in humid conditions, and here there was almost no sunlight. The paint dries very slowly, you see a lot of fuzzy edges and blurred paint. One trick I did was to add small flecks of pure paint, see the yellow spot in the trees. This adds a flicker of light to an otherwise overcast scene.
Green Mossy Truck, Japan, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, 2006 (No. 1211)
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