The main goal for painting today was to prove a point. I don't know what point I was trying to prove. That water with 30% salt wont freeze, that my insulation works, that my Baffin boots are rated to -40℃. At least I managed to get a watercolour painting completed on location in the extreme cold. One challenge was that the sky area would not dry quickly enough, so I had to stand there wafting the sheet for an extra 10 minutes before I could apply the trees. Then to my horror the whole painting dried very pale. So the last touch was to make up some dark black the best I could, and put in the finishing details like the car trim, building segments, and tree textures. For proof of extreme weather, you can see the ice crystal shapes in the sky, and I took a screenshot of the weather report, see below.
Cold Day Brrrr, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2022 (No. 3056a)
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