INSPIRATION

These are the quick watercolours I did while in NYC. Only two colours, blue and yellow.

I confess, I’m a Pinterest junkie. How wonderful it is to have so much fantastic artwork at your fingertips to inspire you. Sometimes I get lost in those images for over an hour. I get all sorts of ideas. It creates an energy within me that just makes me need to get to my studio and paint.

This also happens whenever I visit a gallery. I can hardly wait to get out of there to start painting in case those juices in my mind start to fade too fast.

Last October I went to N.Y.C. to experience the city and galleries and just feed off that big city vibe that I must admit I miss, but only occasionally, after moving from Toronto to Pelham in Niagara. The problem was, I got back to a hotel room with no outlet to express myself.

We decided to walk to Blick’s Artist’s Supplies and get me something to work with. I got two tubes of watercolour paint, anthraquinone blue and gamboge from a brand I had never tried before. May as well benefit from the experience. I also got a couple of watercolour brushes, again from brands I had no experience with and a pad of Canson XL watercolour paper. Cheap and cheerfull. I actually love that paper. I played for three hours in the evening. The images are the result of some of that effort.