Across the boulevard from Gray's Lake is Waterworks Park and a beautiful arboretum of spring flowering trees. Last Saturday the sketch group went there to draw, but the weather wasn't very cooperative. Just as I drove over there the rains came and continued for the entire time. You can't really do watercolor in the rain, of course, so this particular 8x10 was started and finished in the car.
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| "Rainy Afternoon in the Arboretum," wc/ink on paper, 8x10 |
The watercolors used here seem bright but in comparison to the intense color of the trees they're quite dull. There are avenues of flowers above brilliant green grass. I was hampered in this particular work by a near lack of water, and no way to replenish. That means the paint was applied pretty thick, for watercolor.
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