I made it pretty far down the bike path on the Lachine Canal today, you can see the path on the left of this painting still mostly covered in snow. To the right is the canal which still had ice on it. I underestimated the cold today and the paint started to freeze up. Mid-painting I was basically pushing slush around the paper and hoping for the best. Luckily the painting dried just as nice as when I was doing it which is never a guarantee when the painting is covered in ice crystals. It created quite a nice textural effect, and you can almost feel the cold wind whipping up the canal. To paint the grass colour I simply used yellow (PY154) and a touch of black (PBk6). For years I struggled to make this colour because I was convinced it was green, but it is in fact dark yellow. Little discoveries like this have really improved my painting over the years.
Train Bridge, Windy Day, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2022 (No. 3080)
It is great that you have been doing discoveries and enjoying them. I love learning from you.
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