A Last Hurrah

"Along the Street," wc/ink on paper, 

This watercolor is based on references and personal observation, but wasn't done on-site. The spot is less than a block away from my studio, along the street that fronts our creek. This was done just before a massive snowstorm, so it's the last hurrah for warmer weather. 

As I usually do, I sketched this in graphite then painted watercolors in several different layers, adding deeper darks in the evergreens and making certain to faithfully record the greens that were still showing despite the advanced autumn.