Today was another long day at work, but I managed to sneak out for a quick painting across the street. This is the grocery store formerly known as Steinbergs, the last residual of its identity was removed recently when they redid the sidewalk in front (it used to have a fragment of the Steinberg logo). The snow was starting to melt today, it created small puddles and dark streaks along the sidewalk, and the snow was brownish near the road. Usually I edit out telephone poles but in this case I made the foregrounded one a major feature in the painting. I made fairly detailed outlines with paint, which you can't really see in the finished product, that was the point of course, a watercolour should not have obtrusive outlines say from a pencil or pen. To me, the thought of using a pencil or pen in a watercolour is a little bit like the thought of using a knife and fork to eat ice cream. Weird.
There were lights on within the store that were quite visible, I wasn't sure if I could capture them in the painting, but now that I look at the blog picture that detail turned out all right.
Marche Somerled, Thaw 5 x 7.5" cold press, watercolour, February 2021 (No. 2570)
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