On my way back from picking up some artisanal bread from La Meunerie I stopped to make a quick painting in Bread Park. It has an actual name, but I equate this park with me buying bread hence the nickname. The sky was a rare, brilliant blue which was depicted using phthalo green and blue (PG7 and PB15). I explained the technique on a page in my blog called how to paint skies. In the foreground I included my own shadow being cast as I painted. To get the right shade of blue, it is best to add a touch of magenta (PR122) to the phthalo blue (PB15), which you can see in the tree shadows streaking across the well-trodden snow. Ultramarine blue would also be good here but I took it off my palette forever in 2020. I still have a pan with ultramarine, but only use it for some abstract work due to its extreme chemical instability in mild acid.
Bread Park Winter, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, February 2023 (No. 3397)
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