Insistent Tree, For Rent

 

Just down the street a bank closed some years ago, and the building is for rent (a louer). An insistent tree starting growing between the foundation and a crack in the sidewalk. Now the tree is over 3 meters tall! I painted the insistent tree before from a different angle and when it was smaller. One day they will probably chop it down so I decided to make another painting. It points to the lack of trees on Somerled street, aside from this tree there are no others. It makes the sidewalk and storefronts extremely hot in the summer without any shade. I decided to include the SUV in the foreground, which was reflecting the scene on its hood. I painted the car first knowing it would drive off (which it did), then completed the background elements.

Insistent Tree, For Rent, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2022 (No. 3182)