There happens to be a good place to sit near the community garden boxes with a view of a couple of oak trees growing next to an apartment building on Somerled. The trees are shown on the left side of the painting, they are a tall narrow type of oak tree you see throughout Montreal. One of the people who waters the community garden boxes was curious to know if I paint portraits of cats, but I said not in a while. As a commercial artist one has to paint commissions, and the customer may have some personalized ideas not always to the artist's liking. Even Rembrandt made commissions his whole life. I tried it for awhile, but those types of projects are very technical, it boils down to illustration.
Somerled Oaks v2, 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, May 2021 (No.2668)
This was the first try I did yesterday. Painting windows like this is kind of terrifying, which is why I passed on this scene so many times. When the frames are white against a darker background they have to painted in negative space. Getting it to look architecturally accurate is difficult because any line or angle that is off will be noticeable. In the v2 above, I lightened the brick, fixed some of the window shapes, and featured the oak trees more prominently.
Somerled Oaks v1, 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, May 2021 (No. 2669b)
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