As I am reviewing my colour palette it is interesting to think back to when I started painting landscapes. This painting was perhaps the first location painting I ever did in the Bolton area. It was the first time I brought my painting equipment with me on my bike and rode out into rural Caledon looking for a scene. I remember being nervous about the idea of painting on location so I rode really really far until I was in the middle of nowhere which happens to be Colgan Ontario way north of Bolton. I had a basic palette of alizarin crimson, french ultramarine, aureolin yellow, and viridian green. It gave a full range of colours and values, especially in the green and red ranges. It looks like I used glazing here, the shadows on the bottom are the green glazed over or under a purple, and the building has the alizarin glazed over top of the brown. I like how the shadow of the tree changes colour when it gets on the parking lot where I was sitting. The heat of the day really comes across well.
5 x 7" cold press, Watercolour, Summer 1996
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