On a warmish sunny day, I walked to a small Parc Herbert-Outerbridge and made this painting of a bunch of snowy roof tops. The blue sky was brilliant against the orange bricks, and the flowing forms of the tree branches contrasted nicely with all the angles of the buildings and fences. The snow piles provide the focal point around which everything else was arranged. With the better weather today I was able to make a more complex painting, there are lots of overlapping and adjacent elements, a little like a puzzle. The central building was clad in wood shingles which I captured with mixes of yellow ochre (Py43), red brown (PR101, PR102, PBr7) and some pyrol orange (PO73) with indo orange (PY110). To darken the wood and brick in the shadow areas I added carbon black (PBk6). I started using black paint in 2020 and have found many uses for it. Perhaps I will do another colour doodle to demonstrate!
Roofs and Snow, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2022 (No. 3072b)
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