This tree really got the worst of it from the strong wind storm that hit Montreal yesterday. Another large tree was down in Trenholme park down the street too. They put danger tape around the tangle of branches and leaves that broke off, and spray painted the trunk with an orange line which indicates to cut the rest of it down. I started off painting the shape of the tree and filling it in with a greenish umber (PBr7), burnt sienna (PR101) and indo blue (PB60) with carbon black for the shadowed sides (PBk6). I left the colour-highlight areas free until the end, which included the whitish parts of the broken branches, the neon orange line, and the red wrong way traffic sign. It a rather long time to do this painting compared to normal but it may well be the last (and first?) painting of this tree. Its nearby the billboards I painted earlier.
Poor Tree, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2023 (No. 3492a)
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