Today around noon the sun came out and the weather was very warm and spring like, which is fitting considering it is spring! Its just not spring in my office, where they crank on the air conditioning about now and it feels like winter all over again. I snuck out to the little strip of grass along West Broadway at lunch hour and made a quick painting of the beautiful spring field of trees and flowers across the street. Maybe that's how it used to look like anyways! To compose the scene I decided to eliminate the entire row of duplex housing from across the street and just show the garden flowers and glimpse of the backyard lawn which became a large field of grass in my painting. There was a strange satisfaction in transporting myself into a scene that the impressionist painters of the 19th century would have found themselves painting. To complete the joke I kept in the ever-present sidewalk and road although I made the sidewalk like a glowing white-gold instead of dusty grey. I much prefer the look of this semi-imaginary scene over what was actually there.
Spring Field of Flowers and Trees, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, April 2023 (No. 3437)
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