Snow and Grass Coffee Park

Coffee Park is a non de script park next to the train tracks with a walking path, play area, picnic benches and a small basketball court.  It is close enough work and in between the shops making it a good place to stop and make a quick painting around lunch hour. Today there was a bitterly cold wind whipping along the train tracks and some fierce painting conditions. The paint was a little slushy despite the salt in the water and certain colours were nearly frozen solid. Some of the snow had melted leaving little patches of grass and fallen leaves showing through. To paint the tree bark I mixed orange-yellow (PY110) and green (PG36 and PBk31), and used blue (PB60) for the shadows. The shadow brick in the distance was burnt sienna (PR101) with deep scarlet (PR175), while the sunny side was orange (PO62) with some yellow ochre (PY43). As usual by now, the sky was dilute blue-green (PG7) with blue (PB16 red shade), then blending to a more concentrated blue towards the top. I've used the phthalo pigments for the sky since 2020, when I did a painting on the Decarie overpass looking east.
 

Snow and Grass Coffee Park, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, November 2022 (No. 3295a)