With Jazz fest set to kick off tomorrow (June 25th) it was pretty quiet down there today and I could make a few paintings of the setup. Here is a tent, with the main buildings in the background. On the right edge of the painting is part of a stage.
Plsce des arts tent setup, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2026
The bins are colourful this year, yellow, green, and blue, along with bright red planter pots. There was an orange pylon visible that I left out of the composition. A painting like this needs a decent outline, its more of an illustration, followed by paint-by-numbers.
Yellow green blue top bins, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2026
You only had one job to do... paint a perfect circle! Its harder than it seems especially with beat up old brushes. The sphere and purple pedestal are part of Jazz fest decoration, while the cop cars are always parked around here because there is a station down the street. I tried really hard to make the cop car look accurate.
Sphere cruiser, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2026
On Benny avenue there is a small park called Parc Herbert-Outerbridge where the old library used to be located, you can see part of it in the background of this painting, a beige building with arched doorways. I liked the shape of the paths. This one was done yesterday but I forgot to scan in, it was in the pile. I also liked the garbage can in the foreground, its an old metal basket one with a black garbage bag. Orange pine needles were on the ground, in fact, I was standing under pine trees on a soft bed of pine needles.
Parc Herbert-Outerbridge path, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, June 2026
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