The new hiking path has been open since for quite some time now, people are using it for walking, snow shoeing, skiing, and for at least one person, biking and painting! This was done from the vantage point of a bridge that goes over the train tracks, the bridge also has a bike path. The colours in the train dried a bit faded due to the high salt content in the water. There was a stiff wind blowing straight down the valley into my face. I had to paint fast so as not to freeze.
Train in Winter, watercolour 5 x 7" hot press, January 2022 (No. 3056b)
This is one of the many benches they installed along the path. Today it was partly buried in the snow drift. The front of the drift was very bright since the sun was at my back. As you can see the paint was freezing a bit and very difficult to control, at one point the wind caught the painting and it fell into the deep snow. I bring a lot of rags with me these days, actually old T shirts that are cut up. So I brushed the painting off the best I could so the snow wouldn't ruin it. Just in case you wanted to know, the rags are mostly there to catch spills in my paint bag, blot my brushes off to keep the water clean, and in the winter I even have one for my runny nose.
Bench in Snow Drift, watercolour 5 x 7" hot press, January 2022 (No. 3057a)
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