I have made many paintings in Trenholme park, mainly because it is once of the nicest parks within walking distance of our Condo. Today I focused on the interesting angle of the path and patterns on the soccer pitch. After learning more about folk artist Maud Lewis, I decided to incorporate some of the elements from her style. For example, the painting shows many familiar objects, including a menacing wasp that flew by as I made the painting. In fact, the wasp was quite interested in the iron-oxide pigments and spent some time on my palette trying to eat them. I just let it be, unfortunately it would not stay still and eventually flew off. The grass was very dry, you see I used raw sienna which is the colour of a sandy beach to depict the grass. All the other foliage had a heavy orange tint which I created with isoindo yellow (PY110) and perylene green (PBk31). Climate change has affected the artist's palette. The wasp didn't seem to mind.
Trenholme Park with Wasp, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, September 2021 (No. 2808)
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