We went to visit our friends up at their cottage in Lac Du Coeur near Morin Heights which is about an hour north of Montreal without traffic, two and a half hours with traffic! The lake is a beautiful, motor boat-free, deep lake with crystal clear water. I swam out about half way down the lake and tread water for awhile, luckily I have been training at the pool. The lake was better than the public pool because nobody else was there swimming and the water temperature is great. When googling the name of the lake it turns out there is a similarly named lake in France where Claude Monet used to visit, so maybe this was like a coincidence, or something more? It was our second trip out there.
Capturing the trees and the water of the Canadian shield is surprisingly difficult. As an artist you think 'it's just a bunch of trees and water what can be so difficult?' but I have always found it to be very challenging. On this trip I struggled to get the power of the landscape to speak in the artwork, so on the final attempt, I distracted the viewer with a dock and the items that were there after a day of having fun on the lake. It tells a nice story- we are all up in the cottage preparing dinner and relaxing- I am sitting in the grass painting and swatting mosquitoes off my body.
5 x 7 " cold press Watercolour, 2019
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