Down in Trenholme park after picking up the LUFA Farms vegetables I tried to make paintings but encountered some difficult conditions. Cold wet wind and mixed precipitation hovering around zero ℃ was more challenging than painting on a nice clear day at -20 ℃. At -20 ℃ or so, the moisture is gone from the air, and assuming no wind and proper clothes, its not that bad really. Today though, awful! I found a scene looking up an embankment at an old no bike parking sing, where the red circle had faded to a pale green which I found very interesting. The sun was struggling to get through the clouds.
Faded bike sign v2, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, March 2026
This was the first attempt but everything went badly. The positioning of the sign was off from the get go, then the paint was freezing so I went to put salt water in the cup, dropped a palette, spilled some water, froze my arse off. Being stubborn I was thinking, no way I want to go home empty handed so I tried to finish version 1, then went and did a version 2 which worked out a bit better. Our weather is going to continue yo-yo-ing up and down for awhile.
Faded bike sign v1, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, March 2026
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