Up and down Somerled the street and sidewalks were slushy and grey. The Metro grocery store was one of the few pops of warm colours, with orange-yellow interior lighting and pot lights under the snow-covered overhang. To accentuate the warm colours, I made the rest of the painting a pretty solid wall of grey and blue. Various sahdes and hues of grey adorned the facade, I managed to get them right on the first pass using combinations of purple (PB60 + PV55) yellow ochre (PY43) and black (PBk6). These mixtures look a lot darker when wet, so they have to applied a shade darker than you want them to appear in the finished painting. Judging the so called 'drying shift' takes quite a bit of experience and it is one of those things that makes watercolour a bit harder than other medias. Of course, I can hardly paint a line straight, and this composition had a lot of them, it ended up looking a little lop sided but I rotated the image and cropped to improve that aspect.
Metro Winter, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2024
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