I got out for a bike ride today in between light rain, although this painting did get sprayed a little! Believe it or not, this is very close to where I painted the famous winter scene earlier this year, just here I am looking more southwest up the St. Lawrence river, the shore line to the left eventually becomes the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. The sky was cloudy and overcast, with a warm amber glow. In the foreground were some intense green vines on the left and some form of bamboo-like grass on the right. I controlled the shoreline hue, value and chroma by varying the proportions of perylene green (PBk31), indo blue (PB60), cobalt blue (PB28), and the right amount of water. For the darker portions I dabbed in some perylene maroon (PR179) and touches of yellow paint. I wrote more about the challenging technique where I make a gradation of three factors (hue, value and chroma) in a recent blog from my Sutton trip. It was used here on the shoreline.
Lachine Park Rain Glow, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2021 (No. 2804)
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