My Workshop and Garden in the snow – Acrylic and Watercolour on a Watercolour Moleskine
I needed a small screwdriver yesterday. No problem – just go out to my workshop. Workshop is half buried in drifting snow and the locks are all frozen. No problem – just use oil or car de-icer to unfreeze the locks. Guess when this stuff is? Oh well! Will just have to paint the scene, in my new A4 Moly, instead of becoming involved in it. Will the rest of 2010 be like this?
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Nuria 7:52 am on January 2, 2010 | #
(Español):
Me gusta mucho Bob.!.
–o—
(English):
I like it Bob!
Andrew Spanoudakis 8:24 am on January 2, 2010 | #
Love it…. love the foacl point and limited use of color
Andrew Spanoudakis 8:25 am on January 2, 2010 | #
ooops “focal point” – got to proof read more
trebor61 9:08 am on January 2, 2010 | #
Thanks again Nuria. Andrew, good of you to notice the limited palette. Its something I’ve been trying to do more and more. In this case I only used three colours. Saves a fortune on paint. Please don’t worry about proof reading. As I get older, and the fingers get wider and stiffer, I tend to play “Chords” on the keyboard.
Linda Bachrach 12:40 pm on January 2, 2010 | #
Beautiful little scene here!
Rudat 3:43 pm on January 2, 2010 | #
It’s magical! I know it’s cold there, but it sure is beautiful.
roseindigo 3:54 pm on January 2, 2010 | #
Once again, you’ve really caught the cold feeling and it’s a lovely little scene. Would you please tell us which three colors you used? Since I’ve been trying to limit my palette that would be very interesting to know.
Hope you and Margaret are keeping warm also.
Nikira 7:24 am on January 3, 2010 | #
Beautiful magical scene. The story sounds familiar, we lost entrance to our stuff too, and it was 9 degrees yesterday. How your de-icer looks?
trebor61 9:53 am on January 3, 2010 | #
Nikira. Unsure what you mean about the deicer but we had -15C yesterday which is around 5F so we are about the same in coldness. Great fun isn’t it/
Thank you Linda, Susan and Nikira and
Rose and in answer to your question, the three colours are Burnt Sienna, Cobalt Blue and Yellow Ochre – all acrylic which might give different hues compared with watercolours. I can get intense darks with the right mix of the sienna and blue, the greens in the rear trees and the yellow in the tree trunks was from the ochre with some blue while combinations of the three gave me the pale warm greys. Sometime I use Ultramarine blue instead. If you look at this picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28475994@N00/4178751737/
you will see subtle changes. This was painted from a photo sent by my friend in Wisconsin after the start of his winter there. It was taken by his wife. I have since sent the picture back, by post and I believe its a fair representation of the scene.