After painting the glorious Brazilian urban landscape, it was a notch down to paint this dumpster on campus. For those of you who know my painting history, garbage cans and dumpsters have often featured in my location painting. Recently, as in the last three years, I avoided this all too tempting scenes but today it seemed about right. Part of the impetus was to capture the chartreuse colour, with the contrasting rusted metal streaks. I used a convenience mix called leaf green (PY154 + PG7) from Holbein and adjusted with a bit of phthalo green yellow shade (PG36). The rust was raw sienna (PBr7) with hints of umber (PBr7), burnt sienna (PR101), and carbon black (PBk6). The inky black below is carbon black with deep scarlet (PR175). To make the chartreuse really sing I juxtaposed a warm yellow in the steel poles on the right, and some earthy tree-greens in the background. All together the picture design emphasizes the chartreuse dumpster on a sunny day.
Chartreuse Dumpster on a Sunny Day, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, May 2023 (No. 3462b)
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