Cilei's sister and her dog Davidson are staying with us for a week as their house gets renovated. I walked Davidson to the dog park in Trenholme park and made this painting of the moon rising over a pastel sunset. I thought about painting him in a running pose but when the time came to add the dig to the painting he sat down, panting, facing the general direction of the moon. The black silhouette was the perfect foil for an otherwise grey, pastel scene. Pastels are actually tinted greys. making them is complicated, they require some neutralization with an opposite colour or black, and the right amount of water. Yellow ochre is useful in this respect (PY43) I used it for the warm colours in the sky and the grey gravel of the dark park. Davidson is carbon black (PBk6) with a red tongue (PO73, PR122).
Davidson and the Moon, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, May 2023 (No. 3440)
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