At the end of Harley street in the Westhaven neighborhood there is an auto shop, and a dead end road that would normally connect to West Broadway street if it weren't for the train tracks cutting through town. I've done plenty of paintings from this vantage point looking in various directions, this time I was looking northwards, you can see the dead end street on the left, and three concrete blocks in the lower middle part of the painting covered in snow. I often sit on these blocks and eat some lunch in the summer. To the right is the field of grass where I painted chairs, tables, and sunflowers over the years. With some pretty extreme windchill bearing down on me, this painting was a true test of my ability to do winter painting. Luckily the gear held up, and the amount of salt in the water kept it from freezing mostly. I had to do some touch ups back home to restore the details and textures that were lost upon thawing.
3 blocks with snow, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, February 2024
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