With the winter weather approaching, it is difficult to make location paintings. Today was very sunny with a clear blue sky but the temperature was about -12C with a -17C windchill factor (1.4F). To test out the theory that I can still make paintings in these conditions, I bundled up and went out front with a minimal kit: a cup of salty water, palette, paper, and two brushes. A few notes on the experience, my face was frozen by a bitter northerly wind, the palette rapidly froze up creating a kind of colourful slush puppy, it was like painting with crayons, and my eyes were tearing up making it difficult to see. The painting seems to convey all of these factors- it looks like a windy cold mess where your eyes are watering and nose is running.
The paper was actually cold press, but I decided to call it frozen press this time!
Somerled Auto Mechanic NDG, with Windchill 5 x 8" frozen press, watercolour December 2020
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