Oh what fun this was. I was at the Scout Camp and it was a bit slow at the nature centre so I got my paints out. It was -12 C, had been snowing for about 24 hours and a light powdery snow was still falling all about me. I was revelling in the fact that my paints weren't freezing and merrily working away when my paint started to get gritty. I kept working but it was like there was sand in my paint and the texture on the painting was really odd. I blamed the paint and it wasn't until I got inside and warm enough that I could relax and think it through that I realized that it was ice crystals from the snow falling on my palette that was the problem. It is just as well that it isn't a very good painting because I am sure that the integrity of the painting will suffer from the water mixed in with the paint. I was quite literally painting with snow.
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