I used the exact same colors, titanium white, cad yellow medium, burnt sienna and cerulean blue that were left over from last week's painting in this painting. However as I'm looking at these last two paintings this one feels warmer, maybe because the yellow and burnt sienna is more prominent while the army lake one has more white.
I like painting water. Cerulean blue mixed with burnt sienna made a real nice dark gray. With the approaching storm the water became more gray as the morning progressed. I like the dark green I made with these colors but I think I need to use a different yellow in partnership with the current yellow to better capture the wide variety of greens found this wet and cool summer.
It's still pretty cool (70s) and very humid (upcoming rain) so despite the steady medium light breeze I was still fighting the slow dry of the golden open acrylics. I haven't added any retarder to slow the dry or keep the paints wet longer. I like using golden open because you never know what the conditions will be like outside. Some of the thicker painted parts of the paintings were still tacky on Sunday.
It's interesting that water from the fountain is translucent. The fountain interrupted the current and it's falling water created a ring around it.
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