At the end of the day I found this scene up on Mont Royal near Beaver Lake. There is a large sloping hill of grass where people like to sit and sun-bathe and relax, and smoke weed! When I caught a whiff of the wacky tabacky it gave me a psychedelic hippie vibe which inspired the painting to be a little more trippy. The sky and tree line look more like layers in a cake or the bottom of the ocean. This painting was deceptively hard due to the strong back lighting from the sun. Back lighting is when your scene or subject has the main light source behind it, which creates silhouettes and forward casting shadows. Shapes, forms, and colours are all the more difficult to interpret. It also means that you (the artist) are going to get pounded by sun the whole time. I guess you could say I got baked while doing this painting.There were so many seagulls that I included one in the bottom left, it was walking around looking for handouts. Or maybe I imagined the seagull?
5 x 7" cold press watercolour, Sept. 2019
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