With a bit of extra time before the first meeting I made a few paintings around the campus gardens. There is a commercial gardening group that uses the land to grow produce and sell it at a weekly market stand on campus. These bee bomb flowers were growing well, with some leeks I believe in the foreground. Milkweed plants were strewn throughout.
Bee bomb garden, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2026 (No. 5374)
An old concrete barrier prevents cars from driving up onto campus from the north side. Yellow and purple wild flowers grow here, and a bright red cardinal bird landed briefly.
Barrier no parking cardinal, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2026 (No. 5375)
This large triangular shaped garden behind Hingston Hall had a leafy green, then dinosaur kale, with sunflowers in the back. The sunflowers were all facing south west, towards the sun at this time of day. For all the flower paintings I applied the flower colours first, so as to keep them bright and clean, then carefully painted the green and brown around the flower shapes. In watercolour, you can not apply bright colours over top of earthy colours as in oil or acrylic painting.
Sunflowers and kale, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2026 (No. 5376)
I've avoided painting this huge glass building in its entirety, the life science complex, since it was built maybe 5 years ago. Its kind of like the Star Wars death star, but in cube shape.
Glass death cube, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2026 (No. 5377)
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