Despite the cold, windy weather it was possible to do this painting without any salt in the water. The small hill runs parallel to the busy Cavendish street, it blocks a bit of the sound and gives a feeling of being in a forest. I like to walk around here sometimes and make paintings, since the nearest forest is either up on the south summit Mount Royal, the escarpment, or Park Angrignon in Lasalle. The trees were a variety of colours including dark yellow, sap green, and a rusty yellow-green. The trunks were done in dark purple (PV19 + PBk6) and some yellow (PY43) and red ochre (PR102) daubed in. I applied the tree shadows when the background grass was still moist, then layered on some textural brush strokes including my initials. In other news I've reorganized my recent paintings (2021-now) into a sturdy new box that fits better in the closet, and gone through some piles of old papers and notes. Cilei calls it my archive!
Tree Shadows on Hill, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, November 2023 (No. 3585b)
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