"The Train Ride 2013" was a previous painting I did from sketches that I made while on the train from London to Brampton many many years ago. I liked that painting enough so as to make a new version using the same size and format. Some changes were the bottom left which was fire in the original is now a relaxing koi fish pond, the look on the big fish top right is less stressed, I removed the scary trees, and the rest of the composition has a more harmonious perspective and composition. These decisions together created a more relaxed, dare I say more mature, painting than the 2013 version. Maybe in few years I can paint another version and see if I feel differently about the ride.
22x 15" hot press Watercolour, April 2019
