Bike path closure (oranges), watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2024 (No. 4084b)
Autumn colours commuter train, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2024 (No. 4086b)
Once again, here is a painting of traffic lined up on the Cavendish street hill, at the top is Sherbrooke running from west to east. The sky turned out amazing in this painting, I started with faint mixes of orange (PO62) and red-orange (PO73), then transitioned into a neutral, pale blue green (PG7), and worked up to the soft blue (PB15). The colour transitions are very subtle, but the big challenge is that when you change the colour on your brush in watercolour, the moisture level has to be the same, otherwise the sky produces backwashes and runs. To get it smooth and seamless like this involves a bit of skill, a bit of luck. There is also the bit of knowledge that between the orange and the blue is a very pale blue-green/cyan which feels wrong but is true. I did some colour analysis with the computer, and also found a Monet painting where he put green brush strokes in the middle of a sunset because he saw it without having to use a computer of course.
Cavendish traffic with sunset, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, October 2024 (No. 4088b)
No comments:
Post a Comment