Parc Herbert-Outerbridge is a postage-stamp sized park on West Hill Avenue next to the Provigo. The old library was there, in fact, the building still stands and is used as a community center. I painted a scene of the community building in this park way back in fall of 2020.These trees were sitting on a patch of melted snow, and the grass was struggling to become green. The surrounding snow was well trodden by the kids playing and passer-byes. If you look closely at the pine foliage there are two shades of green. In the center tree the green is what you could call blue-green or grey-green. On the flanking pine trees, the green is towards orange, a kind of high chroma olive green. The grass is more of a dark yellow. I wrote my thoughts on green in the green gamut blog, and a blog on mixing blue grey and green. A big part of the recent success was due to about three years of contemplating colour mixing with the help of the watercolour resource Handprint.com, and then putting it to practice for over 1500 paintings!
Grass around Trees, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, March 2023 (No. 3413b)
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