Ready for Winter

Ready or not, here it comes! They installed the skating rink supports at William-Hurst park in anticipation of winter skating. I was returning from buying bread and stopped to make this painting of the scene. I was also test driving my winter set-up. For water I use two plastic square bottles of salty water, one for clean, one for dirty. For paper, I use the rack that I wrote about last winter, it allows the painting to dry without getting smeared. Paint dries very slowly in the winter due to less sun, low temperature and the salt in the water. My clothing was good for today, just the leather gloves a little light, next time I will bring the moose-mitts. 

Ready for Winter, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, November 2021 (No. 2931)