University of Glasgow is a very old University around five hundred years! As a consequence they do not have water fountains anywhere and I remember quite well running out of water and having to go back into town to buy bottled water. The scarcity of drinking water seemed silly considering just how much rain they have. Armed with water I could complete this painting, although in a dramatic twist of irony it did start raining in the middle of my session. The last twenty minutes there was a drippy mist coming down as you can see on the grass at the bottom. I had to really rush, and when I put the painting away in my bag to escape the downpour it got messed up a bit in the middle. Considering how much detail there was in the architecture I did the best I could to rush out the bricks windows and doors. The brick was that sandy orange and the grass was a brilliant emerald.
5.5 x 7.5" hot press, watercolour September 2018
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