On the way back from picking up some lunch at Snowdown Bakery, I stopped in Coffee park and made a painting looking back across the train tracks. A maintenance shed had some prominent graffiti on it which I converted to my initials. Most of the leaves are off the trees by now, but a few gold and orange trees remained. The trick behind painting the graffiti is to maintain value contrast. A yellow or white spray paint looks light on a dark background, but the fill colours, usually black or blue are much darker. Who knew that making paintings of graffiti could be such an art form in itself.
Train Tracks and Graffiti, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, October 2022 (No. 3276b)
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