We had a another cold one today, and I'm not talking about a beer. The temperature has been hovering in the minus with a lot of wind chill making for some difficult water painting conditions. I'm calling it water painting because they call the other medias oil painting, and acrylic painting, so why not water painting? Today I cut the salt down slightly because of the issues I had last time, so in fact the water was freezing up a bit this time. The results were good though, the painting dried pretty much as I saw it on location, which was behind the Benny Sports complex. The sun was hanging lazily in the sky behind this group of trees and behind a mostly overcast cloud cover. Warm light was filtering through, creating a glow on the entire scene which I captures with isoindo yellow (PY110) and yellow ochre (PY43). The field was criss-crossed with sky trails and boot prints from all the people who had been out playing and skiing there. A few skiers went by, braving the cold. What drew me to this scene was its proximity to the library, where I picked some more books on countries that start with the letter C, and also, the frosty coating on the pine trees. Most of the painting was near-neutral, done with perylene green (PBk31) and magenta quinacridone (PV19), a combination I used a bit int he last word inspired painting on Congo. Who knew that I could use the same colour from a steamy tropical jungle to paint some frosty Canadian trees.
Frosty Trees, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2022 (No. 3059b)
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