We are in the midst of a mini heat wave, even before summer officially starts. I made it out of my chilly office yesterday and today to make a few quick paintings. This one shows a line of shrubs along one of the paths in front of the PERFORM Centre, with abundant white flowers. It is likely a spirea shrub, common to NDG and often used on front lawns. I applied the light/shadow of the flowers first, then over-painted the foliage and filled in the background elements.
White flowering Shrubs, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, May 2023 (No. 3464a)
Today it was even hotter, like a sauna as they say. This scene was on Harley street in the Westhaven neighborhood near the bakery and fruit store where I picked up some eats for a late lunch. I was contemplating how to depict a hot day in a landscape painting, and noticed some heat waves coming off the road and tops of cars, but that effect seemed rather impossible to paint. Then I noticed a long-lost winter mitten on top of a pole, symbolic of the end of winter. I also amped up the contrasts in the painting, lots of yellow tint and blue shadow with orange accents to simulate the feel of heat with colours.
Glove on Pole, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2023 (No. 3465a)
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