A large sports dome adorns the campus every fall and throughout the winter. For many years during pandemic time the dome was left up, but recently they went back to the seasonal erection of the dome. That sounded funny. To paint the scene I started off with the sky and then worked on the foreground elements which included some red vine leaves and a bright green strip of grass. Some odd containers were behind the fence. The blue shadows on the dome were done with blue (PB15) and a touch of magenta (PR122). Most blue paints lean slightly to the green, so adding a touch of magenta brings them to an exact blue or slightly leaning to violet-blue. One nasty reminder I got today was that the cold weather is arriving, I was not wearing gloves and felt the wind chill, and the paint was a little frosty on the paper. Pretty soon it will be time for salt in the water and the deerskin gloves.
Sports Dome Fall, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, October 2023 (No. 3576b)
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