Over ten years ago I made trip out to Gothenburg, Sweden, with the main purpose to attend a conference, and the second purpose to do some tourism and painting. I posted one of the paintings of a sunset on the apartments. Looking through my carton of landscape paintings I found a few more and just made some scans. The painting shown above is in a similar location as the previous one, with a better view of the mountain line, and a misty park with fall-coloured trees.
Gothenburg, Sweden, Park, Apartment, Trees, watercolour 7.5 x 11" cold press, 2010 (No. 1220)
Here is another one, not too far from the conference center. Everything was remarkably organized there, and all of the apartments were at least three stories high if not five or six. There was little traffic, and no garbage anywhere. I read over my notes from the previous blog, and I remarked on how difficult was to paint in the cool weather with the low sun. The paint was drying slowly. In this painting, colour was infused into the scene to energize it a bit. The red/green contrast and the yellow/purple contrast were intended to punch up the colour. Gothenburg is in the south of the country, really close to Denmark, which was the next stop on the trip.
Gothenburg, Sweden, Apartment and Road, watercolour 7.5 x 11" cold press, 2010 (No. 1218)
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