Friday, January 13, 2023

Bolton Pond in the Old Days

 

After taking watercolour lessons in '89 Mom got me a book called Zoltan Szabo's painting little landscapes which contained a list of new paints to try. One of them was burnt sienna transparent (PR101) from Winsor and Newton. I made good use of it to depict the pond behind the house, which was recently renovated into a storm water collection area. It was more natural back then but the general lay of the land was the same. The painting was done from a photograph that I took, it would still be a few years before I took to location painting. To create the twigs in the foreground and the tree trunks, I scraped the paint off with the end of a brush. I still have that brush and use it all the time, 30 years later!

Bolton Valley and Pond, watercolour 8 x 10.5 cod press 300lbs, 1993 (No. 0043)

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