The second painting I did at the jazz festival was done in a very exciting circumstance. There was a bizarre parade going down St. Catherines, the parade included a marching band, flag bearers, a feathered woman on stilts, a giant alligator and some dude wearing a candy-red jester hat. Meanwhile, thousands of people lined the street trying to catch a glimpse of the action. At first I could not find a good place to sit, as the standing crowd was blocking the view. So I went up the street and found a nice place to sit and began to paint the crowd and the UQAM building as seen in the back-ground of the picture.
When the parade got there I quickly sketched it in, and a woman pusing a hot-dog cart went by, which I also sketched in. The parade came and went pretty quick so I worked fast and filled in details from memory. All of that energy from the surrounding translated into an exciting piece of artwork filled with vibrant colours and flowing lines. You can almost hear the tuba over the noise of the crowd, and smell the hotdogs and cheap beer.
Jazz Festival Parade, watercolour 5x7 cold press, summer 2008 (No. 1085)
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