We have reached the point where seasons all mix up into one. Currently it is warm, rainy, with leaves changing, and that is after a full two weeks of sunny days. I was rather hoping for one brief cold snap followed by a week or two of cool sunny days because that creates the perfect conditions for fall landscape painting. When it rains extensively, the leaves get soggy and brown and fall off. I will still try and get out and do my best given the conditions. In the old days, like starting in 1996 I was mostly a fair-weather painter, preferring to venture out on bright sunny days. I made the occasional winter painting or rainy day painting. It wasn't until 2020 that I started painting outdoors regularly, twelve months a year rain or shine, day or night, hot or cold. I've just about done it all now as a location painter. The hardest condition is winter at night with snowfall, once it gets past 20 below. Heavy rain is also a difficult condition, you have to find shelter or rely on an umbrella. In the painting, I arranged earth colours into an abstract rain fall pattern. Its kind of like wallpaper, although I was thinking about artificial intelligence art when composing the patterns.When I was a kid the wallpaper in my bedroom had jungle animals, including ocelots which stick in my mind.
Earth Rain Fall, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, October 2023 (No. 3652b)
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