On a lunch break I made a quick painting of some apartments in Westhaven , a small neighborhood south of the train tracks. I was standing in front of Snowdon bakery on Harley street looking south. Getting the angles right was key, and the arrangement of windows, doors and decks had a repeating pattern that I started to notice as the painting progressed. Its not the kind of scene you would think of for a watercolour painting, but the contrast between the sky, tree branches, windows and doors, and the tops of the cars made for an interesting composition. I was standing in the spot where the panhandler usually sits but he wasn't here today and nobody gave me any change either. Hey, help an artist out why don't you? The panhandler by the way, I give him a few coins every now and then, he once had a few paintings on the sidewalk that he was trying to sell. But he seemed to have abandonsed the effort or maybe the art market is a little soft. Anyways, I always enjoy painting in this neighborhood, at the end of the street is the field of grass where I have made dozens of paintings.
Westhaven Apartments with Tree, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, November 2023 (No. 3434b)
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