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 (No. 5057a)
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 (No. 5058a)
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