As a hot, humid, rainy, muggy July starts to come to a close I find myself feeling a warm glow. Like, my neck, arms and legs actually feel like they are glowing red despite heaping on the sunscreen. Sunscreen might stop the bad infrared from getting in, but it doesn't stop the heat. What does stop the heat are trees. I stood in a big shadow looking east towards the baskeball court in coffee park which is bookended by two large mound of grass meant to keep the ball from rolling away. Its the first time I got the picnic table mostly correct. To paint the picnic table I outlined three rectangles in green, the green became the berm of grass, then filled in the rectangles with the reddish brown, painted over the black iron supports making sure to connect them properly, then applied the darker shadow on the edge of the surfaces. This is how I think when painting complex structures. The basketball hoops were much the same, paint around the shape, then fill in with shadow and detail. The rim was a mix of red-orange (PO32) and orange (PO62). This painting is very light and airy, the pastels contrast well against the dark greens, and the composition lets the viewer 'walk' around with their eyes.
Basketball Court Coffee Park, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2023 (No. 3503)
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