Burr, Sutton

Maybe I just wanted to feel cold so I painted a .... burr. Bad joke of the day. This was perhaps the last painting I did on the Sutton trip, I was overheated and exhausted but this burr plant was just begging to be painted. It was overlapping an empty parking lot and the rolling blue hills in the distance. I maintained the yellow of the burr leaves by keeping the paper unpainted.. if you were to do the whole background first, then paint the leaves on top, the leaves would look dark and bluish. To accurately portray this burr plant was a nearly impossible task, each of the actual burrs was a little glowing orb that I could only approximate with a blob of vanadium yellow. It was funny to think that a lowly burr plant could be harder to paint than the Notre Dame cathedral, but that was the case. I wasn't going to post this one but Cilei really liked it, and it was also a personal favorite of mine from the trip. 8 x 10" cold press, watercolour, July 2020