After a great day of winter painting yesterday, the weather turned cold and grey with a bitter wind chill on Sunday. On the way back from buying bread at Snowdon Bakery I stopped to make this painting in Coffee Park located between the train tracks and coffee street. The back of the bakery you can see in the painting as the long grey building. Fitting that many of the objects in the painting are coffee-coloured! I used variations of three iron oxide paints including yellow ochre, burnt sienna and raw umber. The snow was a lot greyer than it appears in the painting, and there was a fence between the bench and the train tracks that I omitted. It was a difficult finish as I had not prepared well enough to sit in the cold this long but in the end it worked out okay. The composition is quite different than the previous day's paintings which used dramatic angles this one is all about horizontals and verticals.
NDG Coffee Park Bench and Bin 5 x 7.5" cold press, watercolour, January 2021
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