Winter Watercolours

When we left for York to go to the markets the other weekend, it was incredibly misty and frosty, thurning the fields and industrial areas of South Leeds into ‘scapes of grey and white. I am kicking myself now for not taking a large number of photos out of the windows, but enough of the scenes stuck in my head to get something from them.

The fields were fading right into the mist and the black spines of the trees were isolated poking out of the whiteness. I hit on the idea of playig with Perelyne Green for the trees and hedges where they faded from that black to a green-grey in the distance.

This is a semi-imaginary scene from the journey.

I also decided to do a little experiment. The extreme levels of mist create an almost entirely monchrome scene. I spend a while recently playing with Paynes Grey, which is obviously a mixed pigment, to seehow the constituent pigments seperated and behaved under different conditions. For the sketch below I worked almost enturely in Paynes grey with a second limited layer of Perelyne Green to push the minimalism further – though I think not far enough and I intend ot play with this idea more.