Quality art on location is never a guarantee. The results can never be sure until it is all dried and ready to hang on the wall! In this painting I was sure that it would be a disaster because the whole scene was a mess of different parts, in congruent and overlapping. But I knew that once that flower bed went in, and the details were finished on the ice cream stand that it would be spectacular. I will let the viewer be the judge. You see a bed of yeallow and peach coloured tulips and the great vista of Montreal and the St. Lawrence river all the way to the south shore. It was a beautiful sunny day and I was part of a group walk led by the conference organizers. The conference was the Canadian Society of Chronobiology (CSC) meeting of scientists, it was a fantastic conference and I learned a lot, not to mention got to make a few paintings in my old neighborhood.
To paint the tulips I put a wide wash of yellow and red (windsor or scarlet lake) across the painting, it looked more like a sleeping bag than a bed of flowers. Once dry, I overlapped the green foliage, and added some red and orange details to create the bulb shape. The initial wash was the key in creating a dense, warm flower bed even though the finished product does not contain very much actual detail the feel is what is more important when painting.
5 x 7 " hot press, Watercolour, June 2019
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