Park Jarry is a vast flat expanse of grass interspersed with trees, paths and various park elements including a massive tennis stadium where the pros play. With baking sun and hot, hazy conditions the air was thick and colours bleached. The whole painting was done in shades of greyish green and brown, accented by a few dark elements on top of the stadium. Using contrast like this created an intense hot atmosphere without resorting to high chroma colours like I did on the underpass painting from Sunday.
Tennis Stadium, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, May 2024
It's a tough location to paint, Park Jarry, very flat with a few trees and lots of people. I tried composing the tree and path on a flattened, vertical format and directional brush strokes. Scribbling in a few figures on the path helped with the believably of this dream tree.
Dream Tree and Path, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, May 2024
This painting only took about two minutes, not that I time myself or anything, it was just like, diamond, field, trees, grass, blue sky, voila. Mostly it was a test to see if this kind of outrageous composition could work. Essentially its an abstract painting with a few trees and blades of grass. Having said that I can see some potential with the idea.
Baseball Diamond, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, May 2024
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