I rode down in hot weather to Lachine park which is in between the river and an inlet containing a marina. The shore on the background is Lachine. I used the new synthetic brush from Kama pigments, it is a number 16 round brush, which is about the roundness of your thumb, with a sharp point. It covers the paper well enough and can be used for detail. I also used it for last night's Jazz Fest paintings.
St. Lawrence Inlet near Lachine, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2022 (No. 3162a)
This is the end of the inlet where it becomes the Lachine canal. It was very windy and the water was full of ripples. There were large steel bulbs that looked like muffins, in the past they would have moored boats here. Now it is just a nice place to sit. Delicate yellow flowers were growing at the rocky edge, and I edited out the black iron fence.
Lachine Canal Muffins, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2022 (No. 3163a)
Wanting to get a closer view of the bridge I found a spot to set up in Ranger Park. There was a swarm of strange looking flies that were literally everywhere including my clothes, hair, bike, and even palette! They seem to be a kind of May fly even though it is July. Were they July Flies? At least they didn't bite. After some research this seems to be a kind of caddisfly, it lives in the water as a larva then emerges to eat and mate for a brief time similar to the mayfly. They are a good indicator of a healthy ecosystem.
Swarm at Ranger Park, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2022 (No. 3045)
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