The story of the day was just how hot it was, with a base temperature of around 35℃, that's 95℉, with plenty of humidity so it feels like over 40℃ ! Since my office is so cold, it was actually kind of a relief to warm up on my way to Snowdon Bakery to pick up some lunch. What better way to capture the sense of heat than to paint these sulfur-yellow waste bins under a stark blue sky. The bins were full of discarded fruit, there were strawberries strewn about the ground. Pairing yellow and blue like this was something I learned from Van Gogh who discovered the colour scheme when painting in the blazing hot south of France. For me its a continuation of the garbage bin motif, but the other reason was I could stand in the shade of City Fruterie. If you look carefully in the top left you can see the top of the commuter train that was whipping by.
Yellow bins discarded fruit, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2024 (No. 3791b)
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