TIP
At this time of year, use colours that are lighter and brighter to capture new plant growth. For example, make lemon yellow, transparent yellows (azo, aureolin) and phthalo blue and green a part of your palette.
At last, the mornings become lighter, and I do not have to do the chicken’s breakfast in dawn twilight. They are starting to lay now the day lasts longer. Trees are coming into leaf and in the soil below, spring bulbs appear where yesterday there was nothing. In a month almost everything will be up, growing and flowering, with colour everywhere, although here in the north of Britain everything is approximately two weeks behind the south of the country. There is enormous energy in all living things, and plants, flowers, birds and mammals appear very quickly. It coincides with an abundance of light,
