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Friday, July 31, 2020

Sunset in Bolton

As the month wraps up I reflect on the artwork and blog efforts, it was by far the most amount of paintings and thoughts I've had in a single month related to watercolours. Like many people I was in a funk for most of May and June, in July the pandemic seemed to abate, and my other life as a professor steadily improved in the sense of the laboratory opening partly and the students doing a great job of doing their best under the circumstances. My waking schedule is a lot earlier which facilitated more painting on location despite the oppressive heat, and my legs regained some strength allowing me to reach up to 20 km on the bike. The 27 stations of the green line metro series is all but complete, tomorrow morning the last station awaits my brush. In this Bolton sunset painting, it looks like I was working with new colours- Mom bought me some new supplies including the thick, 300lb press paper, and many new colours including antwerp blue (which was likely used to make the signature), and winsor red (pyrrol red). That signature you see was fairly new at this point, I even have a sheet of paper where I made a bunch of variations before settling on this signature which I went on to use on hundreds of paintings. I may have been looking out my bedroom window to make this painting, although I had taken several photos out my window and it may have been from photo. Those houses are no longer visible, the trees have long since overgrown and blocked the view across the valley.

6 x 10" cold press 300lb, watercolour, 1993?

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