New colors for a New Year

(C) 2019 Dale DiMauro

This is a scene I have experienced throughout the seasons. I have recorded it many times on my camera and painted it on numerous occasions in watercolor, as well. It is good, I find, to go back and see things in a different light. 

Since cleaning and tweaking my palette as I entered the New Year, this is the first watercolor completed in 2019. However, the pigments used for the most part, have not been my usual choices.

In this case I used cerulean blue for the sky, which I find, is a pigment that mixes well with others. The combination of burnt umber and ultramarine, as a dark for the base of the woodland edge, I have been experimenting with a lot, lately. Perhaps, the most important pairing in this watercolor is indian yellow with winsor violet which provides the warm brown in the foreground. In the past, I could not for the life of me, come up with that foreground color. Now I am much more satisfied with the result.