Continuing with the PEI painting blogs, here is the one painting I made in Charlottetown. This street was featured on the tourist map and brochures, they call it Victorian lane or something to that effect because the buildings are more or less preserved from the old days. Being from Montreal this type of scene was no surprise, most of Verdun and Ville st Henri have this type of architecture, complete with cafes, restaurants and sun umbrellas. It was definitely hopping here. We walked around the corner and found an almost empty patio on the art cafe, and had a decent meal of fish burger and beef burger. To paint this, the perspective needs to be enough to give the illusion of depth, and the crowd of people just needs to capture the energy, not all the precise detail. The big tree anchors the composition, it prevent the eye from sliding off to the left, and draws the view from the background architecture back into the foreground elements. It was a neat downtown, but I have to say that all of PEI seems to close at 5PM, and restaurants at 8PM, so we really had to plan our days around that!
Victorian-Era Street, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, August 2024
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