Catching the last bit of sun for the day, I ran out to the baseball park to make a few paintings. I had been at home all day, and felt like it was time to cover all the bases. Who knows? I could paint a diamond in the rough. Kidding aside, the trees were just starting to change colour, green to orange, and the sun setting cast an amber glow all over. I made good use of benzimida orange (PO36) and isoindo yellow (PY110) tints, they are orange and warm yellow paints that I discovered this year. Great for making olive-greens too. I also used perylene green (PBk31) in the shadow parts of trees.
Baseball Diamond, Loyola Park, NDG, 6.5 x 7.5", cold press, watercolour, September 2020
The second painting I made was done on the same spot, I barely paused because the sun would be down in about 10 minutes. There was no time to fuss about or let things dry! I was wearing a baseball cap which shielded my eyes against the setting sun, I only peeked at it briefly to see that it was a very bright tangerine. The painting shows the sun as much darker value, but I wanted it that way so as to look like Monet's Impression of a Sunrise. It looks like a solar eclipse with mars or something! The poles are the giant lights that illuminate the playing surface, they were off at the time.
Impression of a Sunset, Loyola Park, NDG, 6.5 x 7.5", cold press, watercolour, September 2020
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