As I have done many times before, I stopped to make a quick painting on campus on the way home. Unlike previous days, it was seriously cold today, at -26℃ with -39℃ windchill, the news even said it was closer to -44 with windchill. For the most part, my winter gear held up, and I found a nook to stand in that was sheltered from the direct wind. Even with triple-layered gloves and wool wrist-gators on, my fingers were beginning to feel it by the time I finished the painting. It was more detailed and had sharper edges when I completed the painting, but when it dried at home the frozen paint melted and blurred it out a bit. Actually, it looks more accurate now, you can get the impression of snow blowing in the fierce wind. Adding to the challenge, I was standing under an amber lamp, which makes it difficult to judge colours correctly, and the paint was pretty frozen making it hard to get the colour on the brush. Today's painting breaks my previous cold weather-painting record which was in mid January of last year, when it was a balmy -24℃ with -35℃ wind chill. These are the kind of records that nobody but me want to break.
Icy Cold on Campus, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, February 2023 (No. 3395a)
And today's screen shot:
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