Commuter Train Passing on a Grey Day

 

There aren't too many things more exciting than the commuter train passing by on a grey day. Or should it say 'there aren't not too many things...' At any rate, after picking up the Lufa vegetables I felt an urge to make a painting no matter how dour the scenery was in Trenholme park. I've been contemplating how to paint this commuter train for some time now, it has crept into my bag of motifs over the years. It goes so fast that one can not paint it unless its parked at the station. When it zipped by today I tried to memorize as much of the detail as possible, two decks, multiple long windows, a door, light blue wave and dark blue wave on the side. Luckily the sky and building dried pretty fast and I managed to paint over the trees and tall lamp that illuminates the field in the foreground and initial the painting with the year, as I have been doing since 2020. I started adding the year when I started making the catalogue, it was then that I realized my paintings were undated and very hard to organize. Now, almost every painting has a year, a blog and a number. When I update the numbers next time I will have exceeded 4000 paintings lifetime!

Commuter Train Passing on a Grey Day, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2023 (No. 3414a)

Update: This is in fact the 4000^th painting in my catalogue! Which means it is approximately the 4000^th painting I have done to date, I can't be more sure since there are quite a few painting from the past that gave not been numbered. The number you see in parenthesis is lower (No. 3414) because I often paint on the backs of painting, so this was essentially the 3414^th piece of  paper I painted the 4000^th painting on.