Fortunately, the weather has been holding up recently making it possible to do a few more paintings before the snow. It was about plus 7 when I did this one, with a medium wind, which nearly caused the paint to freeze but not quite. If it gets a tiny bit colder with wind the paint can start to freeze a little, of course, when it gets to zero and below it really freezes up. There isn't much colour left in the landscape so I focused more on a building here, the sports complex, which has a very unique shade of red in the bricks. It is a dark neutral red. This painting was surprisingly difficult, partly because my eyes were watering due to the cold wind. The brick is mostly pyrole vermilion (PR255) with carbon black, adjusted with raw sienna (PBr7) and perylene maroon (PR179).
Benny Sports Complex, NDG, 5.5 x 7.7" cold press, November 2020
I had just dropped a few books at the cultural center (Bangladesh and Bahrain) and made the painting seen above and was heading home when I saw the most incredible sky. I really didn't have the time to make another painting, as usual my schedule was packed with just an hour here. Recently I saw parts of a show called Canada's greatest Landscape painter on CBC streaming, it was a standard reality composition show featuring painters. Just before they announced the actual winner I turned it off because I thought all six of the painters were winners, and art shouldn't really have a winner per say. Anyways, I just wanted to remember the show like a bunch of great painters, not that there were winners and losers. What does this have to do with the cloud painting? One of the landscape challenges was to paint a sky and lake view, which was a challenge for them because oil paint is not ideal for painting clouds. It is the one thing that watercolour paint is better for, because you can make diffuse wet-in-wet applications that resemble clouds. An example is here at the Langelier metro station.
Cloud view NDG, 5 x 7"cold press, November 2020
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