We are still in the midst of a nasty cold snap, the temperature and wind chill were really bitter today. On the way back from the library, where I picked up books on Congo and Croatia for my world inspired landscape series, I stopped to make a painting of the sun setting on a snowy field behind the sports complex. If you zoom in you can see the ice crystal formation. The paint ran on the left, it probably froze and thawed later on at home. These paintings are really organic, a product of their elements; it is a style unto itself! The sun was streaking through the trees which created orange slashes of light across the dark blue snow. The tree line was critical to make the painting work. To achieve the dark olive green I worked up a mix of perylene green (PBk31), burnt ochre (PY43) and some carbon black (PBk6). While the water was not freezing due to the salt, the blobs of paint on my palette were freezing which made it difficult to work up the colours. A strong wind was also coming across the park. You can see the signature I just squeezed in with the last feelings in my hands, I was wearing the moose mitts of course!
Sunset on Snowy Field, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2022 (No. 3058a)
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