I was riding home on the weekend from a quick painting trip down town when this scene caught my eye. A group of seagulls was flying off the railings over the Lachine canal next to the bike path. You may wonder what a group of seagulls is supposed to be called. Formally a group of seagulls is a flock, a colony or a scavenging, but it can also be called a flotilla, screech, squabble, pack or swoop. This particular group seemed like a squabble to me. After a short moment they wee off so I painted the scene mostly from memory. The bike path was done with an under-painting of orange-yellow, then layered with a magenta-violet mix. The gulls are black and white on a grey-blue background.
Bike Path with Seagulls, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, November 2022 (No. 3207b)
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