This painting is a remake of a painting I did on location the same day. The red bricks were almost, but not quite, the same shade as the prominent burning bush shrubbery. A large tree had glowing leaves, and the background had light blue panels and windows showing bookshelves inside. To make red colours I used various mixes of pyrol red (PR254), perylene maroon (PR179), burnt yellow ochre (PY43), and quinacridone magenta (PR122).
Intense Fall colours, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, October 2022 (No. 3202b)
Here is the original one done on location. The colours were too intense and the shape of the shrub was lost in the details. In the remake, I depicted the red shrub as a focal point, and tones down the saturation. Fall colours tend to be less intense than we might think. It is a matter of the surrounding elements that make the fall colours appear to be intense. Everything is so drab this time of year that any colour will pop out.
Too Intense Fall Colours, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, October 2022 (No. 3269a)
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