I have been struggling. I was fighting with oils so I switched back to my trusty watercolours and struggled even more. I want to develop some skill with acrylics so that I can use them on canoe trips and when travelling so I decided to play with them for a while. In the past I used them thick out of the tube just as I would oils and that didn't work very well for me. I couldn't deal with how fast they dried. Monday I misted my palette with water and a little retarder and voila. I had a blast. The paint stayed wet long enough to use my oil painting skills and yet dried fast enough that I could paint over sections that I didn't like. Did I just find my medium? Maybe.
Painting is fun again.
This was painted on a very grey day at the end of Ferrie Street in Hamilton. It was cool and very damp. It had rained all morning and the solid grey sky started to break up into rolling cloud masses just as we started to paint.
Sunday I will be painting Coote's Paradise from the "High Level Bridge" as part of the "Day on the Bridge" festivities. There will be beer and wine tents, food trucks, live music and one of the best views anywhere. It should be the perfect storm for me. I can't wait now.
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