Being on this kind trip which is part vacation, part visiting, part working (for Concordia University) has been interesting. The grad student application deadline is soon, with a number of last minute students I interviewed over whats app, several collaborative grants, managing the students in my lab, researching and planning the sabbatical project, and making some paintings when time allows. On the recent excursion we drove by quite a few fantastic scenes that would have been great paintings. So I downloaded an app called sketchbook and scribbled in the scenes from memory. The first one shows a colourful gas truck.
This scene, also from Indaiatuba, which I just learned is the number one ranked city in Brazil for living, shows a colourful cop car with lights, and a pink magenta flowering tree in the background.
For this scene, I liked the triangular piece of grass, and the imagery of a palm tree getting visually squeezed out by two massive condo towers in the background. The sketch app has a large array of pens and brushes, and I could use my colour knowledge to find the right hue, saturation and values. All the same I would have rather painted the scenes on location. I also saw stray dogs chasing cars, and enormous cactus plants growing infront of colourful plaster houses.
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