On my way back from picking up bread at La Meunerie today I stopped to make a quick painting of a snowy tree in a park along Grand Boulevard. There were very few people out and about just a dog walker and a fellow with his kid, he was pulling icicles off the eave of this building. I hung up my bag of bread on a fence while I stood in a snow drift to make this painting using my new setup. When I saw the dog, I realized that the fence I hung my bread bag on was in fact part of the dog park! Luckily there were no dogs in the fenced area otherwise my precious bread could have been captured by some canines. The Sun was perched in among the branches of this tree, just shining through some thin cloud cover. The snow was in silhouette, with a yellow-orange aura. I had to paint around the areas of snow to provide contrast, and then carefully fill in the background elements. Once the two red poles were added everything came together. For the snow covered bench, there were just small bits of it showing from underneath heaps of fresh snow.
William-Hurst Park Snowy Tree, NDG 5 x 7.5" cold press, watercolour, January 2021 (No. 2542b)
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