Not far from home, this park used to be called Victoria park I believe, but was renamed Trenholme Park at some point. The dandelions were starting to go to seed, creating a silvery wisp across the field of green grass. The sky was overcast, but still had clouds floating about, which created an interesting silver-on-silver appearance that mirrored the dandelions. I did the trees in a about three layers, working from light to dark, and finishing with some yellow washes, and the bark and branches. After some refinement I have my palette down to a simpler format. Basically I have set up areas for browns, greens, blues, warms (yellow-magenta) and black, using 18 paints. That sounds like a lot of paints, but it is about as low of a number I can go without giving up any convenience, and besides the palette literally holds 18 paints so may as well fill it. For all the other paints I own, I set them up on different palettes for studio paintings, I will make a post about it soon.
By the way, the heat is starting to come on here, going to be 30℃ tomorrow, time to wake up early. I did a little research into the weather this year and discovered that February 13th was the coldest day of the winter at more than -20℃ below, I made a blog called deep freeze that day after doing some paintings. If I can do a painting tomorrow that means I will have painted in a 50℃ window (from -20 to +30) in just a little over a 3 months span of time. I will try not to melt, or thaw, or whatever happens in that situation.
Silver Dandelions NDG, 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, May 2021 (No. 2642)
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