The campus parking lot has an enormous pile of snow that was catching the last rays of sun, along with a half buried stop sign. On location I painted the snow pile by starting with a orange-yellow glow created with benzi orange (PO62) and benzi yellow (PY154). Benzi is short for benzimidozalone, the chemical name for this family of synthetic pigments. Then I applied the blue-violet shadows using blue and magenta (PB15, PR122), with a few dabs of the yellowish mixtures, and some dark brown for grit. At home, once the paint had dried, I finished with the details including trees, texturing on the snow, and the stop sign, along with my initials. It was far too cold and windy to wait for it to dry on location, it may have taken 30 minutes or more, and the sun was already down by the time I finished.
Snow pile with shadows, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, February 2025
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