As I try to make at least thirty blogs for this year I find myself typing a lot faster. This painting was done after the Amsterdam trip, late Sept. or early Oct. when the weather was just starting to get cold and the leaves had turned and were starting to blow off the trees. This scene is looking south west down St. Jaques St. towards the highway on ramp and into the distance. The building on the left side is the U haul dept with a giant poster on the side of it. I made the light yellow because I was trying to experiment with a lot of yellow like Van Gogh did. If you read my past few blogs you know I have been on a Van Gogh kick lately, I think what inspired me was that he had an unconventional and uninhibited painting style that really conveyed the feeling of the scene. I added the swirls last to complete the impression of a powerful swirling overcast sky. I did this on the hot press watercolour block that I picked up in Glasgow.
6 x 10" hot press (block) watercolour Fall 2018
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